Ken Kesey Quotes

95 Sourced Quotes

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

Ken Kesey

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

Ken Kesey

They're out there.
Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.

Ken Kesey

I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered 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.

Ken Kesey

I like that saying of Thoreau's that in wildness is the preservation of the world. Settlers on this continent from the beginning have been seeking that wilderness and its wildness. The explorers and pioneers were out on the edge, seeking that wildness because they could sense that in Europe everything had become locked tight with things. The things were owned by all the same people and all of the roads went in the same direction forever. When we got here there was a sense of possibility and new direction, and it had to do with wildness.

Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey

Born: September 17, 1935

Died: November 10, 2001 (aged 66)

Bio: Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey was 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.

Known for:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1964)
Sailor Song (1992)
Demon Box (1986)
Last Go Round (1994)

Most used words:

Ken Kesey on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quote

Ken Kesey Quotes

Ken Kesey Short Quotes

American Novelist Quotes

Novelist Quotes

20th-century Novelist Quotes