226 Quotes by Daniel Keyes

I can’t afford to spend my time with anyone – there’s only enough left for myself.

My anger was an exciting feeling, and I didn’t give it up easily. I was ready to fight.

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can’t change much or go any higher than they are, but you’re a genius. You’ll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.

Who’s to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who’s to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge.

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.

I was on a down escalator now. If I stood still I’d go all the way to the bottom, but if I started to run up maybe I could at least stay in the same place. The important thing was to keep moving upward no matter what happened.

I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.

People resent being shown that they don’t approach the complexities of the problem – they don’t know what exists beyond the surface ripples.