It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

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.