Ken Kesey

"Once upon a time a young man of American background thought he had discovered the Great Secret, the Skeleton Key to the Cosmos, the Absolute Answer to the Age Old Question asked by every Wizard, and A…"

"I been away a long time."

"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past."

"There's something about what we're doing, is that we're meant to lose... every time! We make these foires, write these books and perform this music, but the big juggernaut of civilization continues an…"

"The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else."

"I watched and tried to figure out what he would have done. I was only sure of one thing: he wouldn't have left something like that sit there in the day room with his name tacked on it for twenty or th…"

"Maybe not you, buddy, but the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh…"

"But just as soon as we got to the pool he said he did wish something mighta been done, though, and dove into the water."