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.
Ken KeseyThe job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.
Ken KeseyI'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.
Ken KeseyYou're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.
Ken Kesey