Zitat des Tages von Ken Kesey:
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
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?
Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.
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.
The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
To hell with facts! We need stories!
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.
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.
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
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.
If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
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.
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.
The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.
You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
