Ken Kesey Quotes

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

Take 15 minutes daily, thinking of pleasant scenarios regarding your body, with the sole intent of enjoying your body and appreciating its strength and stamina and flexibility and beauty. When you visualize for the joy of visualizing rather than with the intention of correcting some deficiency, your thoughts are more pure and, therefore, more powerful. When you visualize to overcome something that is wrong, your thoughts are diluted with the "lackful" side of the equation. In time, your physical condition will acquiesce to your dominant thoughts.

I think the power of the mind is amazing, and we've barely scratched the surface of what it can do.

Producers - we always think, "Well, producers are very powerful," but producers don't really have the power. It's the appearance they might, but they don't. Even the actors don't. Even the studio heads don't, because they're beholden to this corporation and what the corporation wants. So no one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.

But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.” “Already crazy about you, Sage.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness. I don't think he actually thought he would win. I think the original idea was purely a marketing idea. It seemed a no-lose situation, because he would get so much free publicity. And this has always been his genius - I shouldn't use the word "genius" when talking about Trump - but he's always understood the value of free publicity.

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

I have a plan-to go mad.

I think essentially corrupting institutions in Washington are turning conservatism into something that is really very creepy, but also emotionally and psychically powerful for people.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.