Quotes from Dean Koontz

When a scientist tells you that 'the science is settled' in regard to any subject," Lamar said, "he's ceased to be a scientist, and he's become an evangelist for one cult or another. The entire history of science is that nothing in science is ever settled. New discoveries are continuously made, and they upend old certainties.

Woodrow Bookman, Woody

Katie switches it on again and reverses a little beyond the beginning

impatience was a characteristic of those who didn't understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.

Helen Mainway, Charlie's wife

Yet each time that they are given but one reason to doubt, a worm in the apple of the heart makes them turn away from a thousand proofs of the miraculous, whereupon they have a drunkard's thirst for cynicism, and they feed upon despair as a starving man upon a loaf of bread.

where the moon and stars do not exist, where the sun will never rise, where the path is ever downward, yet he descends in a desperate search, for

but that tenderness is a vain form of pity

recorded everything from his observations regarding the ecology of the island to ruminations

His heart knocked as if on Heaven's door.

But our greatest treasure, hope, remains. It is a sturdy little motor within, purring, ticking, driving us on when reason would suggest surrender. It is both the most pathetic and noblest thing about us, the most absurd and the most admirable quality we possess, for as long as we have hope, we also have the capacity for love, for caring, for decency.

Just like happy, sad didn't last. There was mostly the place between, so the tears stopped before the weather did.

On a mutual dare, they killed for the first time when they were fifteen. They enjoyed it. And satanism justified it. Gosset called it "just another way of believing.

beyond that image conjured by Poe's famous story, "The Premature Burial

calm and sane. The key words of the Japanese experience, at least for most of its philosophical history, are "serenity" and "simplicity".

Here, in the quiet hours after midnight. Like sitting on a beach. The night rolls and breaks and tosses up our losses like bits of wreckage, all that's left of one ship or another.

A novena to the darkness

He puts the pouch with forty thousand dollars in the trunk

the heart is deceitful above all things.

Technology changes nothing. People were people before and after the steam engine, before and after the airplane. But Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not quite now. Walls. That's what it is. The problem is walls.

on such matters as reincarnation, poltergeists, astral projection, and spontaneous human combustion.

This is Elliot Stryker. Elliot, this lovely young lady is Christina Evans, the guiding hand behind Magyck!

We ceaselessly examine the bits of wreckage in the surf, as though we can put the past together again, but that's just torturing ourselves.

postmodern man who denies the existence of any Truth and believes that each of us makes his own truth that is as valid as any other.