Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

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 Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

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.