Ken Kesey Quotes
"The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored."
- Ken Kesey
"The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Lady)
"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."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Religion, God)
"The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: 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?"
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Christian, Consciousness, Integrity, Republican, Want)
"The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Heroes, Trouble)
"The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Truth, Cruelty, Mercy)
"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."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Sky, Sun)
"There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Energy)
"Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate."
- 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."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Lie, Shakespeare, Writing)
"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."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Columbus, First, Forbidden, World)
"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."
- Ken Kesey
"You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Funny)
"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: People)
"Take what you can use and let the rest go by."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Rest)
"There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: People, England)
"Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Being, Mind, Talking)
"Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Time, First)
"Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Fascism)
"I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Thought, Nixon)
"I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Christian)
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph."
- Ken Kesey
"I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Memory)
"If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Help)
"Ritual is necessary for us to know anything."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Ritual)
"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."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Time, Revolution)
"Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Eye, Fire)
"Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Death, Love, Past)
"Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Man)
"Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: America, Writing)
"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."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: History, Right)
"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."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Society, People, Want)
"People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Love, People, Emotion, Sense)
"The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Fun)
"If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?"
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Conservative, Land)