“We could plan a murder Or start a religion.”

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.

Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Getting drunk . . . you’re in complete control up to a point. It’s your choice, every time you take a sip.

I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.

The plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.

You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.

That He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.

In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.