What has happened to me? Why am I so alone in the world?
The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?
I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.
I hate that mouse
And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.
But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've...
You want these back, don't you? You want me out of here so you can come back and take over where you left off. I don't blame you. It's your body and your brain-and your life, even though you weren't a...
There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.
The more intelligent you become the more problems you’ll have, Charlie.
Results are often negative. We learn what something is not—and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.
Light and unfeeling. Drifting and expanding through time and space. And then, as I know I am about to pierce the crust of existence, like a flying fish leaping out of the sea, I feel the pull from bel...
Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.
I passed your floor on the way up, and now I’m passing it on the way down, and I don’t think I’ll be taking this elevator again.
How can I make him understand that he did not create me?He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feeling...
But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can’t be solved as intellectual problems are.
Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known--not long ago the adolescent in me thought death could happen only to other people), I see now that the pa...
I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'
When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me.
Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. That’s enough.
The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving...