Quotes from Dean Koontz

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

While life could be evaded, death could not.

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.

When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.

I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.