Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

"I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone."

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

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

"Punctuation, is? fun!"

"I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone."

"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."

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

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