Ken Kesey Quotes

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

I only work with people that are mysteries.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.

Sometimes there are no answers.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

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.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.