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" I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head. "

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" I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be. "

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

" When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around. "

" If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land? "

" 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. "

" Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. "

" Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate. "

" Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast. "

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" The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental. "

Fundamentalists

" 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? "

" To hell with facts! We need stories! "

" Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. "

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

" Ritual is necessary for us to know anything. "

" People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. "

" You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you. "

" Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second. "

" The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored. "

" Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing. "

" The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. "