Quotes from Dean Koontz

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

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

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Time doesn't, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

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

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.

Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.