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.

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.

What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?

The world news might not be therapeutic.

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.

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

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.