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, but 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.

There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?