Ken Kesey Quotes
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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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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place - then it won't make a damn.
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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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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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Alla you! Quit bugging me, goddammit!
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To hell with facts! We need stories!
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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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You can't trust the quality any more...
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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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The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.
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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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Nothing lasts.
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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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You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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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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The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
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God... your book is beautiful!
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The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.