Quotes from Dean Koontz

MY LIFE BEFORE JACOB'S LADDER, ISLAND LIFE, LITERATURE, and PARANORMAL

the sound of an AR-15 can't be mistaken for anything else.

to devote himself to pleasure. Now Dorian was occupied with the cover-up of the truth of Springville and needed Ludlow for this one task

Shacket has been in a foul mood since leaving Cedar City. Mile by mile, the arid Mojave leaches out of him what little human kindness has not been drained away by the endless injustices he has suffered.

Whether God's a Catholic, a Baptist, a Jew, a Muslim, or a quantum mechanic, He gives us compensation for our pain, compensation right here in this world, not just in those parallel to it and not just in some afterlife. Always compensation for the pain…if we recognize it when we see it.

I was born under a glass heel, and have always lived there,'" Tim quoted.

The moon floated in the west, not yet behind those mountains, as radiant as some exotic jellyfish in the sea of space, and the sky twinkled with more stars than Woody could count in a lifetime.

the quiet is broken by a high-pitched buzzing like an immense swarm of angry wasps.

If it's not a man that Zenon and Rice have come after, then what have they shot?

to devote himself to pleasure. Now Dorian was occupied with the cover-up of the truth of Springville and needed Ludlow for this one task, and Haskell was back to do his part for the team.

hormones intended to induce a sense of well-being.

so perhaps in our postmodern rejection of the past, we cast aside more wisdom than ignorance.

Only the human monster knew beauty and rejected it, knew truth and disdained it, knew peace and did not prefer it, unlike the tiger and the wolf who knew not.

In the dream, I suddenly found myself in the night, floating above the house, then gliding over the woods

According to the autopsy, his blood-alcohol level was high

Dorian Purcell

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime

Her six hatchets are racked on the wall.

What he has seen is a nation gone insane. History attests that whole societies can turn away from truth and descend into a madness of lies in as little as a year. That was all it took in Germany in the late 1930s.

supposedly explained why some on their deathbeds hallucinated ministering angels

Hartle-Hawking "no boundary" model for the Big Bang

Mother Nature wasn't really motherly. 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

If envious humanity sought godlike power and fell from grace, it might be true that some race before us did the same

Yeah. Because tonight I was that drawing. I always thought I knew exactly who I was. Then a simple shift of perspective, and I see a different me. Which one is real and which is fiction?