Sam > Sam's Quotes

“If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ”
― Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure enough is. Weakness is true and real. I used to accuse the kid of faking his weakness. But faking proves the weakness is real. Or you wouldn't be so weak as to fake it. No, you can't ever fake being weak. You can only fake being strong. . .”
― Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion

“You must go through a winter to understand.”
― Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion

“The world is not made of bread and honey…nor of the sweet flesh of girls. This world is made of clouds and of the shadows of clouds. It is made of mental landscapes, porous as air, where men and women are as trees walking, and as reeds shaken by the wind.”
― John Cowper Powys, Wolf Solent

“I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.”
― Robert Walser

“We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!”
― John Cowper Powys, The Art of Happiness

“Below the surface of the most civilised human beings, the hunger-lust darts and snaps like a fish, snatches and rends like a bird, growls like a wolf, snarls like a panther, buzzes like a hornet, bleats like a sheep and stamps like a bull; and there is nothing so aggravating to hungry stomachs as the sight of dirty plates pushed away from satisfied rival stomachs.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance