Occupation: Author Birth: September 17, 1935 Death: November 10, 2001
To hell with facts! We need stories..
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense..
I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing..
You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel..
He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him….
It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of o….
The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the ….
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma..
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 look….
What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of ….
Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast..
She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung and his elbows between hi….
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 ….
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all..
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….
We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when it ….
I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and….
Always stay in your own movie..
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking..
Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower. Bibbit! You tell Mr. McMurphy I'm so crazy I voted fo….
You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’ beaver. What are ya doin’ ….