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

— Ken Kesey

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

— Ken Kesey

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

— Ken Kesey

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

— Ken Kesey

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

— Ken Kesey

To hell with facts! We need stories!

— Ken Kesey

To Via Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...

— Ken Kesey

Turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. My sound soaks up all other sound.

— Ken Kesey

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.

— Ken Kesey

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 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.

— Ken Kesey