Daniel Keyes Quotes

I just want to be like other people that are normal.

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.

People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.

I think everyone to a certain degree wants to be accepted.

I think we all want to fit in at a young age.

As teenagers, we go through social, emotional and physical changes... and sometimes, to feel comfortable, we end up doing things that are not true to who we are just to fit in and feel loved.

I think people are more alike than they are different, especially in high school. No matter what clique you belong to, everybody's trying to get approval and trying to fit in.

A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

I consider myself just as normal as anybody else.

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

I think everyone in their life has some point on their life wanted to be like everybody else or wanted to be like the captain of the football team.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.