Daniel Keyes

"You don't know what it's like to have something happening inside you, that you can't see and can't control, and know it's all slipping through your fingers."

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

"40 Years of Algnernon" in Locus Magazine"

"Don't misunderstand me," I said. "Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for m…"

"How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?"

"There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection."

"I am not only a thing, but also a way of being — one of many ways — and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming."

"The foolish thing was trying to solve the problem all by myself. But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intel…"