I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.

Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."

I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis they want everything.

Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.

I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.

Understanding leads to peace.

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

The thing with restaurant talk is you’re not supposed to take it to heart.

I can shoot a basket pretty well.

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.

Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.

And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish

If we repeal Obamacare, it's the Wild West, and then you're gonna see the traditional manner and behavior of Washington kick into gear and start trying to craft something.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.