Daniel Keyes Quotes

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.

The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?

I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night—in the moments before I pass off into...

The depressing thing is that so many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

What has happened to me? Why am I so alone in the world?

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.

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...

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?'

If I didn't understand what was happening at the time, he says, then it doesn't matter. I'm no more to blame than the knife is to blame in a stabbing, or the car in a collision. But I'm not an inanima...

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it...

The last time we were here, I said, I told you I liked you. I should have trusted myself to say I love you.

I’m like a man who’s been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

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.

I hate that mouse

I don't pretend to understand the mystery of love, but this time it was more than sex, more than using a woman's body. It was being lifted off the earth, outside fear and torment, being part of someth...

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.

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...

Language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.