“What a Life: Give some of us pills to stop a fit, give the rest shock to start one.” — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“He hadn't let what he looked like run his life one way or the other, any more than he'd let the Combine… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense." — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“While his relaxed, good-natured voice doled out his life for us to live a rollicking past full of kid fun and drinking… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“You might hide in some Freudian jungle most of your miserable life, baying at the moon and shouting curses at God, but… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“And then some guy wandering as lost as you would all of a sudden be right before your eyes, his face bigger… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has… — Ken Kesey Copy Share
“Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from… — Ken Kesey Copy Share
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy. — Ken Kesey Copy Share
The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask? — Ken Kesey Copy Share
That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me… — Ken Kesey Copy Share
But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure… — Ken Kesey Copy Share
“They think they know the book by its cover, but the book knows what it is. Now he knew better; if the book never… — Ken Kesey Copy Share
If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is… — Ken Kesey Copy Share
“It's gonna burn me just that way, finally telling about all this, about the hospital, and her, and the guys- and about McMurphy. I… — Ken Kesey Copy Share
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around. — Ken Kesey Copy Share
“And then some guy wandering as lost as you would all of a sudden be right before your eyes, his face bigger and clearer… — Ken Kesey Copy Share
