226 Quotes by Daniel Keyes

I wanted to be in love with her. I wanted to overcome my emotional and sexual fears, to marry, have children, settle down.

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.

To control one’s own destiny takes a mastermind. To execute the plans takes a fool.

I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I’m a human being, a person – with parents and memories and a history – and I was before you wheeled me into that operating room!

The more intelligent you become the more problems you’ll have, Charlie. Your intellectual growth is going to outstrip your emotional growth.

You can’t put up a building on a site until you destroy the old one, and the old Charlie can’t be destroyed.

The ice had broken between us and the gap was widening as the current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea.

Seeing myself in the front mirror looking into the back mirror, as he held it for me, it tilted for an instant into the one angle that produced the illusion of depth; endless corridors of myself... looking at myself... looking at myself... looking... Which one? Who was I?

It must be rather dull taking up someone else’s work rather than something you’ve conceived and created yourself.