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,
relationship happiness smile
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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.
moving-on moved-on time-to-move-on
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.
tired dark past
Then—as he was talking—a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only because he figured it'd be too dark for anybody in the car to see, dreadfully tired and strained and frantic, like there wasn't enough time left for something he had to do...
ceramics rorschach psycho
No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?
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 ...
reflection men failing
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.
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.