Ken Kesey Quotes
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I got high on psychedelics before I was ever drunk. I never smoked. Then LSD came by. And to me it was the most wonderful thing that had ever happened... And, of course, the best drugs ever were manufactured by the government.
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To hell with facts! We need stories!
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You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
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People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else.
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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Nothing lasts.
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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?
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You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
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The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
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LSD lets you in on something. When you're tripping, the idea of race disappears; the idea of sex disappears; you don't even know what species you are sometimes. And I don't know of anybody who hasn't come back from that being more humane, more thoughtful, more understanding.
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Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
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Alla you! Quit bugging me, goddammit!
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You can't trust the quality any more...
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Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
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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.
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God... your book is beautiful!
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The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.