Quotes from Ken Kesey

Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance just to keep the world running you plumb crazy.

You damned moose.

While the pigeons fretted up and down the sidewalk with their hands folded behind their backs.

living in that foggy, jumbled blur which is a whole lot like the ragged edge of sleep, that gray zone between light and dark, or between sleeping and waking or living and dying, where you know you're not unconscious anymore don't know yet what day it is or who you are or what's the use of coming back at all...

A guy sitting in the room someplace I can't see is talking about a guy up on Disturbed that killing himself. Old Rawler. Cut both nuts off and bled to death, sitting right on the can in the latrine, half a dozen people in there with him didn't know it till he fell off to the floor, dead. What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

One of the reasons for his drinking, Henry said, was Jon's momma used to make the whole family get down on their knees and pray like fury every time Jon's daddy would come home boozed. Jon never quite got it straight that they weren't thanking the good Lord for his blessing, same as they did at the supper table. So according to Henry, booze come to be something holy to him and with faith like that Jon grew up religious as a deacon.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen

I guess this is what it's like to be a Vegetable; you lose yourself in the fog. You don't move. They feed your body till it finally stops eating; then they burn it. It's not so bad. There's no pain. I don't feel much of anything other than a touch of chill I figure will pass in time.

She got to where she was tripping me and beating me to the floor.

Un uomo, dopo essere rimasto zitto a lungo come me, soggiunse, probabilmente aveva parecchie cose da dire, e si appoggiò al guanciale e aspettò. Riflettei per un minuto cercando qualcosa da dirgli, ma la sola cosa che mi venne in mente era una di quelle cose che un uomo non può dire a un altro uomo, perché tradotta in parola suona falsa.

Maybe that's why he laughs so much, because he isn't able to keep all the pieces out..

Sa infatti che si deve ridere delle cose delle quali si è feriti soltanto per mantenere l'equilibrio, impedire che il mondo ti renda pazzo furioso. Sa che esiste un aspetto doloroso; sa che il pollice mi duole, che la sua amichetta ha un seno illividito e che il dottore sta perdendo gli occhiali, ma non vuole consentire alla sofferenza di cancellare l'umorismo, non più di quanto consenta all'umorismo di cancellare la sofferenza.

There's nothing worse for a forest than to have all the trees be the same

I was born dead. Not you. You wasn't born dead. Ahhhh, it's been hard...

He had come to life for maybe a minute to try to tell us something, something none of us cared to listen or understand, and the effort had drained him dry.

you're not going to pull that hen house shit now, are you? --RP McMurphy

žmogus turi juoktis iš to, kas j? skaudina-antraip praras pusiausvyr?, ir pasaulis pavers j? bepro?iu.

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

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again.

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.