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
garden strange mystery
Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.
moving-on moved-on time-to-move-on
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.
country hurt home
No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.
airplane reality wind
The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.
country vision president
You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.
hurt people grass
There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.
eye night long
Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.
grateful pay homage
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
acting deaf wanted
I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
jobs powerful kissing
The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.
motivational inspiring leadership
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
believe reality thinking
I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it ? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control.
heart moments that-moment
If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.
past use doe
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.