“When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.”

Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding.

That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is….Most people love you for who you pretend to be…

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

Man, I’m sick of doubt.

When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.

We cripple ourselves with lies.

I’ve always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

I want to feel what it’s like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don’t want to miss it

Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also.

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

Jealousy we understood and thought natural–a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.

I’ve noticed that when people are joking they’re usually dead serious, and when they’re serious, they’re usually pretty funny.

What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister?

Indians scattered on dawn’s highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind.

This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.

The best songs just come unasked for. You don’t have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.

The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming ‘Hairspray.’ It’s so weird because I grew up watching her.