Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another. Ken Kesey More Quotes by Ken Kesey More Quotes From Ken Kesey Always stay in your own movie. Ken Kesey independence Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. Ken Kesey usedoepast I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something. Ken Kesey famous-writersenjoyedwriting 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. Ken Kesey eyenightlong Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. Ken Kesey mysterystrangegarden 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. Ken Kesey realdoorsmen I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. Ken Kesey lightningliteraturemotivational I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all. Ken Kesey deafactingwanted But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that. Ken Kesey mcmurphyefforttrying You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things. Ken Kesey being-strongstay-strongstrength I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound. Ken Kesey fadessoundmemories 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 ceramicsrorschachpsycho I've found psychedelics to be keys to worlds that have always existed, that have to be talked about. Ken Kesey keysfoundworld If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it? Ken Kesey fightingwantlittles 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! Ken Kesey meankidsjesus 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. Ken Kesey airplanewindreality 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. Ken Kesey gratefulliteraturepay There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried. Ken Kesey failurefailingfacts 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.' Ken Kesey taught-uswritingbook 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 thoughtfulracesex
