Words matter. These are the best Ken Kesey Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He’s a warrior first and a poet second.
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
Loved. You can’t use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
The Haight is just a place; the ’60s was a spirit.
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
I used to think we were going to win in the ’60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that’s in your audience’s eye.
You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
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.
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It’s intricate.
I’ve been to too many Dead concerts. There’ve been smokin’ holes where my memory used to be.
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 Shakespeare was writing, he wasn’t writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
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?
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.
