The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But 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 dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.

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.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.