Ken Kesey Quotes
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Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.
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Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.
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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.
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The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
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To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.
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There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.
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The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.
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You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.
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Always stay in your own movie.
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Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."
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The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
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I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.
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The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
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He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered.
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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.
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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’ beaver. What are ya doin’ here, for Christ’s sake? What’s funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin’ but complain about how you can’t stand it in this place here and then you haven’t got the guts just to walk out!
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They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.
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He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.
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What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.
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turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound.
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The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
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All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed.
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If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.
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A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.
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Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.
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What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.
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Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.
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He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.
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You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.
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