It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Ken KeseyListen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
Ken KeseyNo, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?
Ken KeseyThis worldโฆ belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.
Ken KeseyThen - as he was talking - a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only because he figured it'd be too dark for anybody in the car to see, dreadfully tired and strained and frantic, like there wasn't enough time left for something he had to do.
Ken Kesey