Quotes from Dean Koontz

we are in this boot camp to learn, that if we don't persevere through all this world's obstacles and all its wounds, we won't earn our next life of great adventure.

Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you can bear to give it because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope

This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith.

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret. Odd Thomas

it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should.

There are people who want everybody dead. When you get over being surprised about that, you have a high amazement threshold.

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world.--Odd Thomas

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

Get out of here while you can. She's crazier than a syphilitic suicide bomber with mad-cow disease.

We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn.

Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing the pain without extracting the thorn that caused the agony.

Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith...

After a silence, because he knew me well, he said, Not all wounds are the bleeding kind.

The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced that he is superior to a man who merely picks up his own and other people's litter on the beach, when in fact the latter is in some small way sure to make the world a better place, while the former is likely to be a monster of vanity whose crusade will lead to unintended destruction.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

I believe our recognition of reality's complex dimensions is a consequence of our solitude.

Storytelling can heal broken hearts and damaged minds.

The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.