Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
Ken Kesey

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
Ken Kesey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
Ken Kesey

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

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

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

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
Ken Kesey

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

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