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
eisenhower voted
I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower.'' ''Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!'
totally
It's been totally successful. Of course, we don't keep any records, so how do we know,
steps march
He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
mistake kids home
All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed.
psychology looks firsts
All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.
independence
Always stay in your own movie.
dragons
To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...
wow scene rendezvous
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.
warrior firsts poet
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
end-of-the-world world ends
What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.
voting insane yeah
I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!
when-you-love-someone forever love-someone
When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
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.