“I can’t do nothing for you either, Billy. You know that. None of us can. You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help somebody, he leaves himself wide open. He has to be cagey, Billy, you should know that as well as anyone. What could I do? I can’t fix your stuttering. I can’t wipe the razorblade scars off your wrists or the cigarette burns off the back of your hands. I can’t give you a new mother. And as far as the nurse riding you like this, rubbing your nose in your weakness till what little dignity you got left is gone and you shrink up to nothing from humiliation, I can’t do anything about that, either.”

“You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see...”

“I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....”

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

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

“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.”

“It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.”

“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.”

“You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.”

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

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