Quotes by Daniel Keyes

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”

“By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling But a world without feeling is a world without pain.”

“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”

“Punctuation, is? fun!”

“I dont know whats worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what youve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”

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

“I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.”

“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 nightin the moments before I pass off int...”

“Im exceptional- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of gifted and deprived (which used to mean bright and retarded) and as soon as exceptional begins to mean anything to anyone theyl...”

“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, mov...”

“Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what i...”

“I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon - very soon - it will burst into consciousness.”

“How many great men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?”

“Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”

“A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it.”

“This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. And now that I've found it, how can I give it up? Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have.”

“Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.”

“Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.”

“That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.”

“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 ...”