Ken Kesey: Trending quotes (page 4)

“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.”

“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.”

“Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys…”

“More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.”

“But I tried though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?”

“I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.”

“But at least I tried”

“The world news might not be therapeutic.”

“They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and thehave going.”

“The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.”

“Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.”

“This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.”

“Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.”

“Take what you can use and let the rest go by.”

“The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.”

“There's something about what we're doing, [which] is that we're meant to lose… every time! We make these foires, write these books and perform this music, but the big juggernaut of civilization continues and we've been kind of brushed to the side, but I think all through history there's been these kind of divine losers that just take a deep breath and go ahead—knowing that society's not going to understand it—and not even caring, because they're having a good time.”

“When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.”

“I can't help it. I was born a miscarriage. I had so many insults I died. I was born dead. I can't help it…. I'm tired.”

“God… your book is beautiful!”