What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

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

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

...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.

And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

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