Quotes from Ken Kesey

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.

Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.

I been away a long time.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.

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?

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."

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 truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

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.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.