"Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"Now I understand 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 (65)."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love... Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis."
— Daniel Keyes

"How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes--how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence. It infuriated me to remember that not too long ago I--like this little boy--had foolishly played the clown (177)."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"I dont care so much about beeing famous. I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of friends who like me (14)."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

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

--Charlie Gordan"
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are. That's what I discovered about myself last night. I told myself I was wandering around like a lost soul, and then I saw that I was lost (180)."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"...Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"Now I know what they mean when they say 'to pull a Charlie Gordon.' I'm ashamed (41)."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"If they gave him enough time--if they didn't rush him or push him too fast--he would get it. But nobody has time (61)."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"It had been all right as long as they could laugh at me and appear clever at my expense, but now they were feeling inferior to the moron. I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies. I had betrayed them, and they hated me for it (96)."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not every body with an eye-q of 68 had that thing. I don't know what it is or where I got it but he said Algernon had it too. Algernons motor-vation is the cheese they put in his box. But it cant be that because I didnt eat any cheese last week. "
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"How can I make him understand that he did not create me?
He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

""Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men."

--Charlie Gordan"
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

""There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."

--Charlie Gordan"
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"She says Im a fine person and Ill show them all. I asked her why. She said never mind but I shouldnt feel bad if I find out that everybody isnt nice like I think. She said for a person who God gave so little to you did more than a lot of people with brains they never even used (35)."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

""As soon as . . . begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression only as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody.""
— Daniel Keyes

"I dont care so much about beeing famous. I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of friends who like me (14)."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

""I hate that mouse""
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"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."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

""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." "
— Daniel Keyes

""Love what you like, wish what you want.""
— Daniel Keyes