You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.

You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become almost impossible for someone to "go mad" in the classical sense. At one time people conveniently "went mad" and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You all are too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard.

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

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