226 Quotes by Daniel Keyes

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

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 it appears to be.

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

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less-filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. 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. Is there time?

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.