Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Then - 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.

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!