Ken Kesey Quotes
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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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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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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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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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You can't trust the quality any more...
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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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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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The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.
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Nothing lasts.
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You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
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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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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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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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Alla you! Quit bugging me, goddammit!
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God... your book is beautiful!
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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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The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.