Dean Koontz Quotes

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

Not funny ha ha, funny weird.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

Inaction counted as a choice.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

The hard rain nailed the night to the city.

At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.

Are you prepared for the first wound?

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.

Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.

Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said.

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas

...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.

Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.