Quotes from Dean Koontz

When making his music, he [Elvis Presley] had been the essence of cool, but in his movies he was often a self-parody embarrassing to watch. Colonel Parker, his manager, who had picked movie scrips for him, had served Elvis less well than the monk Rasputin had served Czar Nicholas and Alexandra.

I won't be able to run with ghosts and slip down dark alleyways in quite the swift and stealthy fashion that I do now; but perhaps children will be amused by my hippopotamic heroics, and no one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable.

Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be.

Be afraid in proportion to the threat.

It had sure felt like death, but then everything since had felt like life.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it.

No one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable.

I am wary of any gun, anywhere, anytime—except when it's in Stormy's hand. She could sit with her finger on the detonation button of a nuclear weapon, and I would feel safe enough to nap.

For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light. The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret... It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.

As a teenager, I always intended to do my homework. But when the supplicant dead come to you for justice and you also have occasional prophetic dreams, life tends to interfere with your studies.

Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.

Even with the intention to be quiet, human beings seldom can restrain from comment or at least grumbled cursing; we are the chattering species, as much as we are anything else - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 56 chapter 7

If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next. He'll also cut you some slack if you're astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions of breathtakingly stupid people get along just fine in life.

Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace.

I hate violence. I hate injustice more. I just want to be a fry cook, but the world demands more from me than eggs and pancakes.

Imagination was so powerful that you had to be careful because you could imagine things into existence that you might regret.

Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets

When a man of ideals decides he is too old to risk everything for what he believes in, then he is no longer a man of ideals. He may no longer be a man at all.

With a thick note of disbelief in her voice, Jilly said, 'You went through the wall to California?' [Dylan] 'Yeah. Why not? Where'd you think we went-Narnia? Oz? Middle Earth? California's weirder than any of those places, anyway.' Page 246

I'd accept defeat. fighting doesn't preclude enduring.I can fight, and if fighting fails I can still endure.

The sole purpose of existence is to open oneself to sensation and to satisfy all appetites as they arise.

Maybe they traveled into darkness eternal without protest because they lacked the imagination to envision anything else.

Coincidence, Jim, is just a word superstitious people use to describe complex events that in truth are the mathematically inevitable consequences of a primary cause. - Michael quoting Mr. Spock