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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The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

Ken Kesey

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thin-lipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jung...

Ken Kesey

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

Ken Kesey

You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.

Ken Kesey

Good writing ain't necessarily good reading.

Ken Kesey

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

Ken Kesey

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!

Ken Kesey

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Ken Kesey

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Ken Kesey

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

Ken Kesey

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Ken Kesey

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

Ken Kesey

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

Ken Kesey

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

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

Ken Kesey

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.

Ken Kesey

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

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