329 Quotes by Ken Kesey

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

He’s the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

While his relaxed, good-natured voice doled out his life for us to live a rollicking past full of kid fun and drinking buddies and loving women and barroom battles over meager honors-for all of us to dream ourselves into.

All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

But I tried though,” he says. “Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn’t I?

Whoever comes in the door is usually disappointing, but there is always a chance otherwise. And when a key hits the lock, all the heads come up like there’s strings on them.

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs...

The truth doesn’t have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.