Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey
Kenneth Elton "Ken" Keseywas an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 September 1935
CityLa Junta, CO
CountryUnited States of America
hero men poison
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.
land conservative behinds
If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
voting insane yeah
I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!
end-of-the-world world ends
What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.
men pay way
What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?
thinking past kool-aid
We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
past long silence
The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.
sex women forever
Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.
oregon rivers looks
Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range . . . come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River . . .
grateful light faster
The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.
laughter men laughing
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
writing thinking forever
I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.
book writing taught-us
Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a writer, understand, but a class) can ever learn. 'Be gentle with one another's efforts,' he often admonished us. 'Be kind and considerate with your criticism. Always remember that it's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.'
able horror framework
They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.