I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Another way to be awakened by the beauty and complexity of the word is to get a dog. Small Things like a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries. Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to… — 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
