Ken Kesey's Quotes

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

To hell with facts! We need stories!

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.