Daniel Keyes

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”

“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 myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to ment...”

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

“Punctuation, is? fun!”

“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.”