“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.”
Author detail
KEN KESEY was born in La Junta, Colorado, but his family later moved to Springfield, Oregon, where he attended public schools, and later the University of Oregon at Eugene. He has received the Woodrow Wilson scholarship to Stanford University and a Saxton Fellowship, and won the Fred Lowe Scholarship awarded to the outstanding wrestler in the Northwest. Mr. Kesey was king of the Merry Pranksters, a group which traveled the West Coast staging happenings; as a leader of this group, Mr. Kesey appeared as subject and star in the bestseller, THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, by Tom Wolfe. At present he is "scratching his athlete's foot on his farm in Oregon, watching his kids and blueberries grow." Photo: By <span title="must have been published or publicly displayed outside Wikipedia">Source</span> (<a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content_criteria#4" title="Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria">WP:NFCC#4</a>), <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ken_Kesey,_American_author,_1935-2001.jpg" title="Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Ken Kesey">Fair use</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54571568">Link</a>
Quotes
Showing 21-33 of 33
“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.”
“Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.”
“Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.”
“There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.”
“You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”
“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.”
“I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”
“I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.”
“Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.”
“Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.”