“I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder on that pea farm at Pendleton -- so I figure if I'm bound to be a loony, then I'm bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one.”

“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.”