329 Quotes by Ken Kesey

One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic?

The way I remember it the tribe got paid some huge amount.""That's what they said to him. He said, What can you pay for the way a man lives? He said, What can you pay for the way a man is? They didn't understand.

He was in his chair in the corner, resting a second before he came out for the next round -- in a long line of next rounds. The thing he was fighting, you couldn't whip it for good. All you could do was keep on whipping it, till you couldn't come out anymore and somebody else had to take your place.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

I been away a long time.

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.