Is this what it's like? he wondered. When you're about to die? One hand stretched back to someone who cares for you, the other reaching for a place you can't see.

Your brain is a forest, And the nerves are trees.When the branches touch, Snaps jumps between the leaves.

Sometimes when I have the feeling like I’m almost crying, it can turn into an almost-laughing feeling.

People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you.

Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

Congress does two things well: nothing and overreacting.

The Doors really were a band of potheads.

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

Kill one, terrify a thousand.

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.