“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.”

— Ken Kesey

Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "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." by Ken Kesey?

Ken Kesey 103

novelist 1935–2001

Related quotes

“Bus driver, bus driver, the sirens have gone,
The bombs may come down, but the buses go on;
Bus driver, I know you won't think me a snob
If I whisper: "Bus driver, I don't want your job."”

A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) British politician

"Seeing It Through", London Transport poster by Eric Kennington (1944).

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Variant: Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

“And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.”

Paul Rudnick book I Shudder

Source: I Shudder (2009), p. 188

“The best way to see London is from the top of a bus.”

William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom

No known direct citation to Gladstone; first attributed in early 1900s (e.g. Highways and byways in London, 1903, Emily Constance Baird Cook, Macmillan and Co.) but appears in late 1800s London guides by other authors, such as:
The best way to see London is by the omnibus lines.
A Tour Around the World in 1884: or Sketches of Travel in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres (1886) by John B. Gorman
Misattributed

“I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.”

Rosa Parks (1913–2005) African-American civil rights activist

Quoted in Rita Dove, "Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution," http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html Time (1999-06-14)by kurtis