329 Quotes by Ken Kesey

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.

Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.

What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.