Quotes by Ken Kesey

About Ken Kesey:

Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey was an American author and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
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I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Ken Kesey

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

Ken Kesey

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

Ken Kesey

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

Ken Kesey

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

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

The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

Ken Kesey

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

Ken Kesey

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

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

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

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

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

Ken Kesey

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

Ken Kesey

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

Ken Kesey

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

Ken Kesey

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

Ken Kesey

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

Ken Kesey

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Ken Kesey

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Ken Kesey

To hell with facts! We need stories!

Ken Kesey

Author Bio

  • NameKen Kesey
  • Descriptionnovelist
  • BornSeptember 17, 1935
  • DiedNovember 10, 2001
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Essayist
  • WorksOne Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; Sometimes A Great Notion