Quotes by "Ken Kesey"

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen... ...if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

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.

When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself.

We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.

The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating.

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

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

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

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

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

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.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

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

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.