329 Quotes by Ken Kesey

You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.

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.

Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower. Bibbit! You tell Mr. McMurphy I'm so crazy I voted for Eisenhower twice! And you tell Mr. Harding right back — he puts both hands on the table and leans down, his voice getting low — that I'm so crazy I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November.

The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.

Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.

To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.

I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!

I've found psychedelics to be keys to worlds that have always existed, that have to be talked about.

See with your ears and hear with your eyes.