You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

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

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.