Author of quotes: Daniel Keyes

Time means nothing when we are together.

The people in the bakery have changed a lot. They don't just ignore me, I feel real hostility.

Man is a radioactive isotope with an unstable half-life, gradually decomposing with every moment, every day.

Each of us becomes a victim as soon as he makes the other his victim. Each of us serves as a tool to hurt the other and ourselves.

Hurting someone and at the same time suffering from pain yourself is what you need. Thus, the circle was closed.

You see, with your help, my mind is already struck by cancer, but instead of hating myself for what I did, I managed to turn my hatred in the other direction, and now I hate all of you.

It all comes down to the fact that every day, week, month and year has value. But after all, days can be lived in different ways - either in vain or profitably, right? And who can say that they are equally valuable? Should you rate time the same, no matter what you do? Or can you calculate its average? Is the day of the life of Picasso, who manages to create a real masterpiece in such a short time, equal to the day of the life of a janitor who is the only one capable of sweeping up fallen leaves? The days of youth when you are seventeen are much less valuable than the days of old age when you are dying. A person is ready to give up all his fortune, which he has been saving for years, in order to finally snatch for himself at least another week or two of life.

When you cannot comprehend with your mind the reason that gave rise to your feeling of guilt, you resort to physical means ...

Forgiveness is not a back-and-forth sprinkler on your lawn. It is good to talk about Christian mercy, but only forgiveness, clothed in words alone, gives off a bad smell if it is not filled with sincerity.

It's strange how predictable people are. You are a sculptor, an artist, and you behave like everyone with whom I have communicated hundreds of times in different countries of the world, from maids and ordinary workers to politicians and scientists. When you are offended by something that you cannot comprehend, you will certainly want to find someone to blame. You are my first artist. And I thought you were different.

Don't people make gods out of things that help with childbirth, change life, or cause death? Why not worship Roentgen, the new radiation god? To the invisible and jealous god who avoids noise and din - the same one who, instead of throwing thunder and lightning from the sky, quietly scatters his disastrous dust. Someday he will fashion a statue of the god Roentgen, scattering dust with his hand, sowing the seeds of death and change. And at his feet people will suffer, crucified on three-blade crosses - symbols of Irradiation, Destruction and Death.

Ignorance is worse than knowledge, and yet she was afraid to learn the truth. Be sure that he knows everything, wherever it goes. She would not be afraid to be delusional if there were someone nearby who could clearly see the danger.

Words can be taken back, and quarrels can be smoothed out.

After all, a woman waiting for a child lives more in the future than in the past.