Ken Kesey Quotes - Page 2

LSD lets you in on something. When you're tripping, the idea of race disappears; the idea of sex disappears; you don't even know what species you are sometimes. And I don't know of anybody who hasn't come back from that being more humane, more thoughtful, more understanding.

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

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.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

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

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

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

Always stay in your own movie.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

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

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

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

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.

I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

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.

But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

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

But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.