Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.

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

. . . We love fog becauseit shifts old anomalies into the elementssurrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

But ironically the believers have done worse in exploring the earth than sons of men who are not even believers have done.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

Liberty is a soul’s right to breathe.

I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.