Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having your hand stamped so that you don't have to come back but you can come back.

Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.

I was certainly a child of the '60s, and I came out of that era, and as a young actor, I got cast as a lot of counterculture hippie types.

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.

I've always despised the hippies.

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the '70s and the '80s.

My parents are definitely reformed hippies.

The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed.

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.

I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

I came upon a child of god, He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me: "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm going to camp out on the land, I'm going to try an' get my soul free.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.

My parents were hippies.

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.

I'm a child of the Sixties.