226 Quotes by Daniel Keyes

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind of picture is a lie. Things are forced to fit because the writer or the director or somebody wanted something in that didn’t belong. And it doesn’t feel right.

Souls withered from the beginning, and doomed to stare into the time and space of every day.

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

Each day I learn more and more about myself, and the memories that began to ripples now wash over in high breaking waves...

Nothing in our minds is ever really gone.

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

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

She had agreed to go away when i tell her to go. It’s painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime.

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.