How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling

Everything has already been said, but not yet by everyone.

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Read to your bunny often and your bunny will read to you.

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.