Occupation: Author Birth: September 17, 1935 Death: November 10, 2001
I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was..
I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!.
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be..
Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a writer, understan….
They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed..
All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down..
There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a ma….
See with your ears and hear with your eyes..
Then - as he was talking - a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only b….
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing..
There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what..
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 ….
But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain..
Don't say it...I've seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty..
But it's the truth even if it didn't happen..
Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren….
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you..
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.….
To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs..
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing..
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..