Ken Kesey People Quotations

If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.

But I remember 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

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

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

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

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become almost impossible for someone to "go mad" in the classical sense. At one time people conveniently "went mad" and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You all are too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard.

When people ask what my best work is, it's the bus. I thought you ought to be living your art, rather than stepping back and describing it.