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Ken Kesey Quotes


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

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

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.

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

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?

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

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

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

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

To hell with facts! We need stories!

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

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

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.

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.

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

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

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.