Ken Kesey quotes

You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side things. (Ken Kesey)
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
Ken Kesey
But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
Ken Kesey
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Ken Kesey
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Ken Kesey
He who marches out of line hears another drum.
Ken Kesey
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.
Ken Kesey
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Ken Kesey
The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
Ken Kesey
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. (Ken Kesey)
To hell with facts! We need stories!
Ken Kesey
Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?
Ken Kesey
If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
Ken Kesey
You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
Ken Kesey
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.
Ken Kesey
Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.
Ken Kesey
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.
Ken Kesey
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
Ken Kesey
He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.
Ken Kesey
That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted. (Ken Kesey)
The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon.
Ken Kesey
They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
Ken Kesey
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?
Ken Kesey
I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.
Ken Kesey