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

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

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

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

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

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

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

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

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

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

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.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

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

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

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

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.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

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

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.