Dean Koontz Quotes (98 Quotes)


    Fate isn't one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

    Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

    From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.


    Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.



    I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.





    I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather...the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it-very loose, the line of the law-so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are always-short of the blantant theft or cold-blooded murder-safely on the right side.

    I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

    It's so damn hard to bloom... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without...love,

    More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

    You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved...well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were. That's what you've taught me, fur face,and because of you I'll never be the same.

    Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.


    Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.


    Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.

    Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.



    Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.



    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.

    Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.



    Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

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

    Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

    Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

    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.

    In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

    I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

    A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

    I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

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

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

    We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.


    Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

    I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

    Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantageand seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

    My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

    Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.


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