Daniel Keyes

The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way…

— Daniel Keyes

“I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not…

— Daniel Keyes

“The most important thing had always been what other people thought-appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it. Time and…

— Daniel Keyes

“April 6—Today, I learned, the comma, this is, a, comma (,) a period, with, a tail, Miss Kinnian, says its, importent, because,…

— Daniel Keyes

“Am I a genius? I don't think so. Not yet anyway. As Burt would put it, mocking the euphemisms of educational jargon,…

— Daniel Keyes

“But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great…

— Daniel Keyes

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am…

— Daniel Keyes

“You want these back, don't you? You want me out of here so you can come back and take over where you…

— Daniel Keyes

“I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing,…

— Daniel Keyes

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.

— Daniel Keyes

I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (which used to mean “bright” and “retarded”)…

— Daniel Keyes

“Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.”

— Daniel Keyes

“Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me.…

— Daniel Keyes

“I hated her as I had never hated anyone before—with her easy answers and maternal fussing. I wanted to slap her face,…

— Daniel Keyes

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.…

— Daniel Keyes

“My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a private room because…

— Daniel Keyes

Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.

— Daniel Keyes

“All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the labyrinth…

— Daniel Keyes

“The depressing thing is that so many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and…

— Daniel Keyes

“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love...…

— Daniel Keyes

Punctuation, is? fun!

— Daniel Keyes

“And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my hair and brow, and the…

— Daniel Keyes

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication.…

— Daniel Keyes

Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever knew I…

— Daniel Keyes

“I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and…

— Daniel Keyes