Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When my time is up, I want to cross a River Styx of pure root beer." - Jilly Page 30” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In this brave new digital world, reality is plastic, and your identity is whatever you wish it to be. As is your… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“She wondered what it was about storytelling that made people want it almost as much as food and water, even more so… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The why of the mind's existence and the how of its profound capacity to reason - especially its penchant for moral reasoning… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known… The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“But with one exception, all things pass from this world and time erases not just memories but entire civilizations, reducing everyone and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“To understand the universe, our world, and all life in the world, you have to step out of time, which for living… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Grief can destroy you—or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Their lovemaking was different from any Ryan had known, rich with desire for a perfect union, yet without lust, giving without taking,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“in time I came to see that of the many kinds of wilderness, the human heart can be the bleakest and the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He believed that he must learn to accept the cold mechanics of Creation, because it made no sense to rail at a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Waiting is one of the things that humans beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“in this dangerous time when shadows cast shadows of their own, when darkness often passed for light, the just and the unjust… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When he looked away from her, the bottles were gone and with them all the vertical and horizontal currents of water and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character motivations.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“For the first time, he considered that utter indifference might inspire not inner peace but a limitless capacity for evil.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“...a wasted opportunity wasn't just a missed chance, but was a wound to your future. Miss too many opportunities, thus sustaining too… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This kind of derangement is emblematic of humankind. Grave faults are said to be only eccentricities, and imperfections are routinely celebrated as mere differences… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two additional powers… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of Music, with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
