Quotes from Dean Koontz

Enigmas of physics, when deciphered, might produce a sublime light, but the answers to mysteries of human behavior seldom resulted in glorious revelations.

It seemed that the political elites were striving, with admiration for George Orwell and rare unanimity, to ensure that the totalitarian state in the novel 1984 would be realized no later than fifty years after the author predicted.

The first buildings had been erected in 1603, to serve as the Kyoto residence of the first shogun of the honorable Tokugawa family

He'd been reading at a college level since he was seven years old, which maybe didn't mean a whole lot, considering that many college graduates didn't seem to know anything.

Opinionated. Conceited. He is not good company

No, what I've got here is good for me.

broke the concealed-carry laws.

Americans were brought up to respect what was new and progressive—and more often than they wanted to admit, they died for their faith in what was bright and shiny.

The gasoline at the two pumps is an overpriced brand he's never heard of, and the building housing the store is fissured pale-yellow stucco with a blue ceramic-tile roof.

This was a theory of Kipp's: There are parallel universes, and when we die, we go on living in other realities. Dorothy was lost here, but not lost everywhere.

Hideyoshi's

The noises on the roof stopped. The six waited. The night seemed to be crouched like a wild thing, studying its prey, timing its attack.

even as foolish as Walsh seems, she is moved by a vulnerability that underlies his pomposity.

don't mean to be macabre, but I realized I don't know how Tanner Walsh died.

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.

Planck minimums of space and time all the way to the gravitational fine-structure constant.

As he cried out in tremulous and wordless horror, she put her arms around him, her secret friend, and held him tight. Although he was older than her, she heard herself saying, "Sweet boy, dear boy, my child, my friend, I'll never abandon you.

perhaps a sea again, or a jungle, because all things pass.

It is human nature to know we die and still to disbelieve it; otherwise, we might not carry on.

she was generous with her time and energy, and in her own generosity she found joy.

His clairvoyance is time travel achieved without leaving the present

THAT WE SHOULD MEET IN THE WHIRL OF LIFE THAT spins more people apart than together, that we should find in each other so much that was compatible, that we should lift each other out of doubt and out of weakness into conviction and strength, that we should fall in love in spite of being unable to consummate it physically, a love that was of mind for mind, heart for heart, soul for soul: This rare gift was priceless.

Walsh had labeled every cassette as to subject. He separated them into four categories

I thought it was of a heart attack, but then I realized no one ever said as much.