Dean Koontz

“then went to the refrigerator and got a small bottle full of blood.”

— Dean Koontz

“If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character motivations.”

— Dean Koontz

In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be…

— Dean Koontz

I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I…

— Dean Koontz

“Among the nations of Earth in all its history, ours is one of the precious few that has not brought forth its…

— Dean Koontz

“The dark makes the light stuff brighter.”

— Dean Koontz

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

— Dean Koontz

“I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood…

— Dean Koontz

We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions,…

— Dean Koontz

“Once truth was known, it could not be unlearned, nor could it be forgotten, but lay always in the heart, a darkness…

— Dean Koontz

“Who would chew up a bunch of books?”

— Dean Koontz

“The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.”

— Dean Koontz

Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look…

— Dean Koontz

You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

— Dean Koontz

“People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose…

— Dean Koontz

“The thing about me loving Harry is I'm twelve and he's maybe thirty or thirty-five, whatever, so he'll have to wait like…

— Dean Koontz

“The sea delivered the message that life was nothing more than meaningless mechanics and cold tidal forces, a bleak message of hopelessness…

— Dean Koontz

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

— Dean Koontz

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a…

— Dean Koontz

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten…

— Dean Koontz

“The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception.”

— Dean Koontz

“But of course we don't notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.”

— Dean Koontz

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping

— Dean Koontz

“The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.”

— Dean Koontz

“On an individual level, the human condition changed day by day, even hour by hour, and while you were soaking in self-pity…

— Dean Koontz