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
memories concerts used
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
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?
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
life love-is thinking
Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."
trying acting world
He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered.
guy seven wrists
Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic?
time moving
Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.
time wind spiders
Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.
honesty too-much
Don't say it...I've seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty.
memorable people dumb
But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all
waiting pranksters bus
There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.
dragons
To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...
drug helping problem
If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
missing insane forget
You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.