“I did not ask to be born, but once born, I will fight to live. All life is precious - even mine.”

"Is this the region, this the soil, the clime, said then the lost archangel, is this the seat that we must change for heaven, this mournful gloom for that celestial light?"
"That's Paradise Lost. You've read Paradise Lost?"
"I liked it."
"You saw yourself as Adam?"
"I should be Adam. God was proud of Adam. But Satan is the one I sympathise with. For I was cast out like Satan, though I did no wrong, and when I see others content I feel the bile rise in my throat, and it tastes like Satan's bile."