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

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

- Ken Kesey

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

- Ken Kesey

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

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

- 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

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

- Ken Kesey

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

- Ken Kesey

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

- Ken Kesey

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

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

- Ken Kesey

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

- Ken Kesey

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

- Ken Kesey

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

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

- Ken Kesey

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

- Ken Kesey

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

- Ken Kesey

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

- Ken Kesey

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

- Ken Kesey

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

- Ken Kesey