All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

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

Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.

For me, each one of those experiences stands on its own. The first one was with Steven Spielberg, who helped me to get an agent and vouch for me, and that gave me the confidence to continue.

Hollywood is a symbol of global movies, it's not just American movies. It's become a platform and a melting pot; it's for all the talents and capital from all over the globe.

Congress is back in season.

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks.

I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.