Quotes from Dean Koontz

the dead moon sheds cold light on the dark buildings that stand testament to the folly of the human race.

Mom said nature was more like a bipolar aunt who treated you kindly most of the time but, now and then, could be a real witch, conjuring killer storms and vicious animals, like big toothy mountain lions that, if given a menu, would always order tender children.

The tape runs out. The recorder clicks off automatically.

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, which he painted in 1781.

I admit that I don't understand art that isn't in the least representational. But I feel no need to understand it.

You can only be in one place at a time, odd one. So it's imperative that you be in the right place for the right reason

the building seeming filled with machine sounds, as if the robots of the Apocalypse were being manufactured here.

black coffee so strong that its smell alone was sufficient to wake anyone in a coma.

politicians were tearing down a thousand years of civilization brick by brick but weren't building anything to replace it.

But the optimist, unlike the pessimist, believes that life has meaning, that there is something to learn from every adversity, and even that the absurdity of such an excess of misfortune will likely seem at least somewhat amusing after enough time has passed. That is why, years after they have lost everything, optimists are frequently richer and happier than ever, while pessimists often had nothing to lose in the first place.

All the windows were fogged over now. Neither Walt nor Lem tried to clear the misted glass. Unable to see out of the car, confined to its humid and claustrophobic interior, they seemed to be cut off from the real world, adrift in time and space, a condition that was oddly conducive to the consid eration of the wondrous and outrageous acts of creation that genetic engineering made possible.

Grief thrived in a quiet heart, and right now hers thundered with terror and revulsion

A man's commitment to others, especially to friends and family, could never be excessive.

If envious humanity sought godlike power and fell from grace, it might be true that some race before us did the same, that we share this broken world with predators who were once beings of light and promise, but transformed themselves into creatures that worship the outer dark and wish the world to be one vast graveyard.

it contains a zippered pouch holding forty thousand dollars in hundreds and twenties.

Megan Bookman's

Among those items were a hundred and six one-hour audiocassette tapes

chlorpromazine

You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind.

Charles Mainway

I'd been slowly robbed of my sense that I lived in a culture that still valued reason above unreason, civility above rote invective, which had once been the case.

However, madness is a different thing from sociopathy, and the potential lies in every heart.

On the one hand, the attorney general, Tio Barbizon, now owed him a favor. On the other hand, if this situation couldn't be contained and if it blew up on them, Hayden might suffer some damage to his image for having acceded so quickly to Barbizon's request. What

We have a weight to carry and a distance we must go. We have a weight to carry, a destination we can't know. We have a weight to carry and can put it down nowhere. We are the weight we carry from there to here to there. —The Book of Counted Sorrows