Ratched shall line us all against the wall, where we’ll face the terrible maw of a muzzle-loading shotgun which she has loaded with Miltowns! Thorazines! Libriums! Stelazines! And with a wave of her s...
No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in...
Most merciful God, accept these two poor sinners into your arms. And keep the doors ajar for the coming of the rest of us, because you are witnessing the end, the absolute, irrevocable, fantastic end....
It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.
I'd wander for days in the fog, scared I'd never see another thing, then there'd be that door, opening to show me the mattress padding on the other side to stop out the sounds, the men standing in a l...
I'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.
But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through...
And we are all surrounded by that skin, and he’s trying to show us some beauty in this condition.
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard
Ting. Tingle, tingle, tremble toes,She’s a good fisherman, catches hens, puts ‘em inna pensWire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flockOne flew east, one flew west
In his room Lee wonders how to include all the history that Peters will need to make any sense of the situation.
Chang! With light and sound and numbers round and round in a whirlwind, and maybe you win with what you end up with and maybe you lose and have to play again. Pay the man for another spin, son, pay th...
But, oh Viv, right doesn’t make might.
As the curtain closed, as the echoes stood up to leave: He wouldn’t of done it for any other reason—he didn’t want to have anybody to have to take the risk just for—I guess not, old fellow, because th...
And I lay awake for hours, hoping another phone call would give me that opportunity to be alone and unruffled with her.
You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep in balance. [Chief Bromden]
You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely certain of its treacherous impermanence.
When this is all over, I told myself, you will hate yourself for wasting so much time . .