John Lennon — "I don't like to be told what to do. I like to do what I want to do."

"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"So I was beating the shit out of him, and hitting him with a big stick, too, and it was the first time I thought, 'I can kill this guy.' I just saw it, like on a screen—that if I hit him once more, th…"

"It's all happening now. It's not going to happen in the future."

"The postman always rings twice."

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn'…"