Quotes from Dean Koontz

by those who want to feel good about themselves without being put to the inconvenience of doing something.

The recording was made four months before Katie bought the island.

every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature.

In this age when innocence is ever more mocked, when truth is aggressively denied if not actively hated, when so many people despise those with whom they disagree, when priests and teachers molest those whom they should protect, when power and fame are celebrated but true law and modesty are disparaged, what fire wall remains between the people and the forces that would devour them?

Parallel Universes and Quantum Reality

Joe never married, and he lived alone all his life. He had no need of four chairs, and yet he built the extra three, perhaps as an expression of hope.

GETTING TO KNOW ME

Once you've loved someone, the love is always there, even after they're gone.

memory serves her, that was the month that Tanner Walsh died.

You know, Katie, farther north in the archipelago, there are islands clustered closer together.

because real life was plotted like Tolkien on methamphetamine

Tragedy materialized before Ludlow at 2:15 a.m.

Writing novels seems like a glamorous and exciting occupation, although in reality I suspect that it's a lot less glamorous than professional wrestling and only marginally more exciting than being a librarian.

all creatures with high cognitive ability, to one degree or another, were often fools and should embrace their foolishness rather than deny it.

The first people settled there along the Santa Cruz River about twelve thousand years

If this is a lonely life, it is also colorful.

Her stories are often dark but never spiral into nihilism.

Love is the only thing that endures.

You can have privacy and tranquility up there, too, but also a sort of neighborhood.

not as reliably able to interpret my dreams. Sometimes I wondered if I had everything backward, my life and purpose and meaning all backward. Maybe the best thing I had to offer was fry cookery of a high order, and maybe my paranormal abilities were nothing more than the equivalent of a talent for farting on command, better repressed than indulged. I, no less than anyone, was capable of self-delusion, of pride that led me to embrace a grander image of myself than was the truth.

When will I be canonized, sir?" "Smart-mouthing your elders will forever keep

Elliot's my attorney,' Charlie Mainway said.

Harry Carlisle

A lot of the time, I don't much care where I go, just so I go somewhere.