Daniel Keyes Quotes

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.

We learn what something is not — and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

I've got to grow up. For me it means everything...

As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other's hands to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing.

So many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.