Quotes By Ken Kesey

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?

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

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

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

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

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.

To hell with facts! We need stories!

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

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

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

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

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

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

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

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

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

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.

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

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