“There’s sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.”
— Dean Koontz
“I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.”
— Dean Koontz
“Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.”
— Dean Koontz
“I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.”
— Dean Koontz
“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.”
— Dean Koontz
“Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.”
— Dean Koontz
“Well, Mr Thomas, while I’m in favour of education, I couldn’t in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a sewer of irrationality, hate mongering, envy, and self-interest. I’m getting out the moment I earn my twenty-five-year pension package, and then I’m going to write novels…”
— Dean Koontz
“I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.”
— Dean Koontz
“…because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.”
— Dean Koontz
“Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved…”
— Dean Koontz
“I needed a moment to understand that I’d been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.”
— Dean Koontz
“Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.”
— Dean Koontz
“…your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will…”
— Dean Koontz
“Denial couldn’t be maintained.”
— Dean Koontz
“…he looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him…”
— Dean Koontz
“Embrace the weather, child, and you’ll understand the balance of the world.”
— Dean Koontz
“the worst happens when you least expect it”
— Dean Koontz
“I’m not much for parties. Sometimes you have to wear a funny hat, sometimes they expect you to eat sushi, which is like eating bait. And there’s always some totally drunk girl who thinks you’re smitten by her, when what you’re really wondering is if she’ll vomit on your shirt or instead on your shoes.”
— Dean Koontz
“Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting”
— Dean Koontz
“I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.”
— Dean Koontz
“Your past is my Future.”
— Dean Koontz
“Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.”
— Dean Koontz
“Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.”
— Dean Koontz
“Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction’s sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in burning out or otherwise eliminating Evil when Evil just couldn’t keep its ugly head down and stay in the shadows, when it came right at you with all teeth bared. The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn’t let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.”
— Dean Koontz
“…Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside…”
— Dean Koontz
“Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever — no past, present, and future, no death. We broke it all.”
— Dean Koontz
“…love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only–and best–answer to death is loving. Loving.”
— Dean Koontz
“…and where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high and brought them low again, as if it were not merely a carnival ride but also a metaphor for the basic pattern of human experience.”
— Dean Koontz
“Now take my hand and hold it tight.I will not fail you here tonight,For failing you, I fail myselfAnd place my soul upon a shelfIn Hell’s library without light.I will not fail you here tonight.”
— Dean Koontz
“I would die of lonely.”
— Dean Koontz