Ken Kesey Quotes
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Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range . . . come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River . . .
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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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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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It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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Nothing lasts.
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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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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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To hell with facts! We need stories!
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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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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God... your book is beautiful!
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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.
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The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
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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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You can't trust the quality any more...
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You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
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Alla you! Quit bugging me, goddammit!
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The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
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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.