Ken Kesey

"While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top, spreading his laugh out across the water — laughing at the girl, at the guys, at George, at me sucking my bleeding thumb, at the captain back at the pier... and the Big Nurse and all of it. Because he knows 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. He knows theres a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he wont let the pain blot out the humor no moren hell let the humor blot out the pain."

"The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive."

"He who marches out of line hears another drum."

"God... your book is beautiful!"

"Theyre 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."

"I thought for a minute there I saw her whipped. Maybe I did. But I see now that it dont make any difference.... To beat her you dont have to whip her two out of three or three out of five, but every time you meet. As soon as you let down your guard, as soon as you lose once, shes won for good. And eventually we all got to lose. Nobody can help that."

"Its still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But its the truth even if it didnt happen."

"Damn, what a sorry-looking outfit. You boys dont look so crazy to me."

""But I tried though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didnt I?""

"Alla you! Quit bugging me, goddammit!"

"But if they dont exist, how can a man see them?"

"This is just shit. Its happening. No blame. Happening and on the rise it would appear. What can we do to delay it? Probably zilch. To stop it? Likely less. But to survive it? Now that sounds more promising. There is evidence of bad shit having been survived before. Ancient Advice Left in cave by Wise French Caveman: "When Bigbad Shit come, no run scream hide. Try paint picture of it on wall. Drum to it. Sing to it. Dance to it. This give you handle on it." So Twister is my try."