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
interesting answers mystery
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.
life men ifs
But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?
thinking may firsts
Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.
cuckoos chaos
But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.
inspirational fog choices
You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
jesus mean kids
You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’ beaver. What are ya doin’ here, for Christ’s sake? What’s funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin’ but complain about how you can’t stand it in this place here and then you haven’t got the guts just to walk out!
revenge men two
The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
faces bears humans
More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.
hands wind clouds
High high in the hills , high in a pine tree bed. She's tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that old chant, Three geese in a flock one flew east one flew west one flew over the cuckoo's nest
jobs cages asks
The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
sex thoughtful race
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.
memories concerts used
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
trying keep-trying trouble
Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
running years guy
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.