Daniel Keyes — Quotes from Author's Books

"You've become cynical," said Nemur.
"That's all this opportunity has meant to you.
Your genius has destroyed your faith in the world and in your fellow men."

I'm becoming intelligent... I'll only love you more.

I am learning to control my resentment, not to be so impatient, to wait for things.
I guess I'm growing up.

There is no question about it now. I'm in love.

P. S. please tel prof Nemur not to be such a grouch when pepul laff at him and he woud have more frends.
Its easy to have fiends if you let pepul laff at you.
Im going to have lots of fiends where I go.
P. S. please if you get a chanse put some flown on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

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

I’m like a man who’s been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

I review things I've said, and come up with all the bright and witty things I should have said.

You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself.

It was like a big hole opened up in the walls of my mind and I can just walk through.

Shadows out of the past clutch at my legs and drag me down.

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.

Intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.

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.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

The last time we were here, I told you I liked you. I should have trusted myself to say I love you.