Ken Kesey Quotes

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

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 Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

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

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 fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

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.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

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.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

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

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

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.

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.

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

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