For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; your vote can be taken, you name, you innards, or even your life, but that last stonghold can only be surrendered. And to surrender it for any reason other than love is to surrender love.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

Don't say it...I've seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty.

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

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.