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.

Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.

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

I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.

I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?