The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. — Ken Kesey

The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. — Ken Kesey

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. — Ken Kesey

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 need for an answer. — Ken Kesey

To hell with facts! We need stories! — Ken Kesey

What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world. — Ken Kesey

The world news might not be therapeutic. — Ken Kesey

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. — Ken Kesey

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 our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves. — Ken Kesey

I’ve found psychedelics to be keys to worlds that have always existed, that have to be talked about. — Ken Kesey

He knows that there’s no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who’s trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you’re not bothered. — Ken Kesey

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it. — Ken Kesey

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’t for the cartoon figures being real guys… — Ken Kesey

When you’re around the whole Dead scene, they’re there as a tribal thing; they’re there as part of a rendezvous and a pow–wow. — Ken Kesey

I’ve been to too many Dead concerts. There’ve been smokin’ holes where my memory used to be. — Ken Kesey

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn’t pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to. — Ken Kesey

The dead’s dead … get ’em in the ground and look to the live ones. — Ken Kesey

The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive. — Ken Kesey

When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all. — Ken Kesey

Loved. You can’t use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. — Ken Kesey

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. — Ken Kesey

Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s ‘People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense. — Ken Kesey

Don’t say it…I’ve seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty. — Ken Kesey

If you’ve got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you’ve got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK. — Ken Kesey

I’ve enjoyed being a famous writer–except that every once in a while you have to write something. — Ken Kesey

They wouldn’t be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon have going. — Ken Kesey

He’s the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people. — Ken Kesey

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. — Ken Kesey

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. — Ken Kesey

You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep in balance.’ [Chief Bromden] — Ken Kesey

He’s safe as long as he can laugh, he thinks, and it works pretty fair. — Ken Kesey

Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. — Ken Kesey

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense. — Ken Kesey

Because sometimes the only way to keep from losing everything is to give everything up. Because sometimes strength must for the sake of winning give in to–– — Ken Kesey

What a Life: Give some of us pills to stop a fit, give the rest shock to start one. — Ken Kesey

There’s something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy. — Ken Kesey

You get your visions through whatever gate you’re granted. — Ken Kesey

There’s a lot of people who don’t understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma. — Ken Kesey

What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is? — Ken Kesey

More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face. — Ken Kesey

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 looked, the way people wanted. — Ken Kesey

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another. — Ken Kesey

You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things. — Ken Kesey