Ken Kesey, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Quotes
All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.
The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.
You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.
You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see...
He knows that 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
Nobody's gonna convince me I can't do something till I try it." -- McMurphy
To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...
I'd think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is.
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 anything at all.
Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.
The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon
It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?