56 quotes
One flew east, One flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.
Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
One of these days you're going to have a visitation.
The Paris Review interview (1994)
Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.
Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
People like Leary have done the best they can to chart it sort of underground, but the government and the powers do not want this world charted, because it threatens established powers. It always has.
When people ask me about LSD, I always make a point of telling them you can have the shit scared out of you with LSD because it exposes something, something hollow.
The Paris Review interview (1994)
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)
They're out there.
Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
What I always wanted to be was a magician...
Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
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)
The answer is never the answer.
Anytime you have a force that comes along and says, We will eradicate these people, you have evil.
The Paris Review interview (1994)
Alla you! Quit bugging me, goddammit!
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range . . . come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River . . .
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
I like that saying of Thoreau’s that “in wildness is the preservation of the world.”
The Paris Review interview (1994)
The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else.
Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
I have known a lot of people to go down and out — they kill themselves with alcohol or downers. But I've never known anybody to go up and out.
Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
Real warriors like William Burroughs or Leonard Cohen or Wallace Stevens examine the hollow as well as anybody; they get in there, look far into the dark, and yet come out with poetry.
The Paris Review interview (1994)