Ken Kesey

More from Ken Kesey

• You can’t bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It’s that old hippie nonsense but it’s still the best stuff there is.

  Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

  • Love
  • War & Peace

• The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

  The Paris Review interview (1994)

  • Writing

• Doing magic, you not only have to be able to do a trick, you have to have a little story line to go with it. And writing is essentially a trick.

  Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

  • Writing

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy