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
literature spirit
The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
getting-high literature fats
The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.
baptism literature want
Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
grateful light faster
The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.
oregon rivers looks
Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range . . . come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River . . .
laughter men laughing
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
apology winning thinking
I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
fighting want littles
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?
cuckoos chaos
But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.
talking mind kind
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.
drug important criminals
Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.