Quotes from Dean Koontz

The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders- and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.