329 Quotes by Ken Kesey

Alongside the statement about one man’s poison being another man’s high, one might as well add that one man’s saint can be another man’s sore and one man’s hero can turn out to be that man’s biggest hangup.

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.

There’s shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.

I discovered at an early age that I was – shall we be kind and say different? It’s a better, more general word than the other one... I got sick... It was the feeling that the great, deadly pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me – and the great voice of millions chanting, “Shame. Shame. Shame.” It’s society’s way of dealing with someone different.

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you’re a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that’s in your audience’s eye.

Does one ever play Coltrane for the uninitiated without subconsciously hoping for the worst?

But like always when I try to place my thoughts in the past and hide there, the fear close at hand seeps in through the memory.