226 Quotes by Daniel Keyes

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

Cuando le dije que no sabia pensar me dijo intentalo. Mientras tenia las bendas en los ojos intente pensar. No paso nada. No se en que pensar. Alomejor si se lo pregunto me dira como tengo que pensar aora que tengo que volberme listo. Que piensan las personas que son listas. Seguro que cosas marabillosas. Me gustaria saber cosas marabillosas ya.

It doesn’t mean,′ she shrugged. ‘It just is.

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 feelings involved.

Time assumes another dimension now – work and absorption in the search for an answer.

I put Algernon’s body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.

Solitude gives me a chance to read and think, and now that the memories are coming through again – to rediscover my past, to find out who and what I really am. If anything should go wrong, I’ll have at least that.

Her voice, hoarse, was an unmistakable echo down the corridors of memory.

Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain. “When I was retarded I had lots of.