Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
- Ken Kesey Quote

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

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
- Ken Kesey Quote

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

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

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 Quote

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

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

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

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 Quote

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
- Ken Kesey Quote

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

The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
- Ken Kesey Quote

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 Quote

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
- Ken Kesey Quote

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 Quote

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
- Ken Kesey Quote

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

To hell with facts! We need stories!
- Ken Kesey Quote

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.
- Ken Kesey Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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 Quote