Ken Kesey Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

2. It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them? One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

3. They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

4. We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

5. When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

6. He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

7. It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them? One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

8. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

9. One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thin-lipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we know?"[Remember This: Write What You Don't Know (New York Times Book Review, December 31, 1989)]

10. The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

11. They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest