Ken Kesey was a contemporary of the Vulgarians & this selection of quotes will highlight the similarities of thought between Ken, his group The Merry Pranksters & the Vulgarians. Ken Kesey was a writer among many other things. His most well known book is “One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” published 1n 1962. Not only was he a writer but he & the Merry Pranksters were the subject of a book by Tom Wolfe Called “The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test” a classic of the LSD culture & another link to the Vulgarians.
"But it's the truth even if it didn't happen."
— Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
"To hell with facts! We need stories!"
"Rules? PISS ON YOUR FUCKING RULES!"
"He who walks out of step hears another drum."
— Ken Kesey"
"If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite."
— Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
"Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom."
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But 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."
"What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait."
— Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
"People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense."
"Of offering more than what I can deliver,
I have a bad habit, it is true.
But I have to offer more than I can deliver,
To be able to deliver what I do."
"High high in the hills , high in a pine tree bed.
She's tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that old chant,
Three geese in a flock
one flew east
one flew west
one flew over the cuckoo's nest"
