Quotes from Dean Koontz

The blow she took from Katie can be forced down a memory hole now that this new offender gives her an opportunity

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. —ANNE BRONTË, "The Narrow Way

In this crazy future tumbling like an avalanche straight at us, the ambitions of two people didn't amount to a hill of beans.

Those in the Mysterium had different views about to whom and when the truth of them should be revealed. Their

My intellect is God-given. I've a sacred obligation to use it.

Love was not an act of reason, but a leap of faith, a belief that some mysterious meaning must lie behind existence and that two particular lives were fated to be one; love was an expression of trust in the truth of the heart's yearning and the mind's keen intuition. In the absence of love, the heart might be deceitful above all things, but profound love was an antivenin that cured deceit.

Because we have free will, our tomorrows are never determined until we make them day by day.

Besides, some books contained disturbing ideas. They started you thinking about things you wanted to forget, and though your thoughts became intolerable, you could not put them to rest. The

Although Panthea's claim that our adversaries were older than the universe sounded like lunacy

Life can sometimes seem hopelessly complex, unpredictable, chaotic. Then a strange order makes itself known.

A passion to rule, to tear down society and remake it more to their liking, a passion to silence all dissent and to make a world in which they wouldn't have to hear an opinion at variance with their own. The passion for destruction always has more appeal to more people than does the passion to preserve and build. It's an ugly truth of human nature. Passion, sir. The kind of raw passion that breeds ruthlessness

Alienated from most of his relatives, Walsh left his entire estate to a questionable charity

meaningful coincidences reveal that our collective consciousness creates reality at least to some degree.

But personal safety at the expense of others was cowardice, and cowardice was a right only of small children who lacked the strength and experience to defend themselves.

the world is ruled by arrogant narcissists who have exchanged their souls for the promise of power, and in spite of all their talk about justice and the betterment of "the people," they care naught for any but themselves. In their high hubris, they are masters of destruction and press their many kinds of ruination into every crack and crevice, so that even the most remote sanctuary will in time receive the consequences of their insanity.

Some say that as many as 10 percent of human beings are sociopaths.

In a sort of ghastly simplicity, we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. —C. S. LEWIS, The Abolition of Man

gliomatosis cerebri. It originates in the connective cells of the brain and infiltrates quickly, deeply into surrounding tissue.

This is an age when freedoms are fragile. Those in power speak loudly, ceaselessly about compassion but rarely exhibit any.

I wouldn't want to eat any raw horse

that I am in some way chosen for a special role.

Prayer never works. Expect no miracles, Father. The dead stay dead, and the living only wait

To create good fiction, you have to like people enough to want to write about the human condition—but close yourself alone in a room for a large part of your life to get the job done right.

too much leisure was a dangerous distraction from the cold, hard realities of life