Quotes from Dean Koontz

Everyone, Pax believed, was more than she or he appeared to be, and one of the saddest things about the human condition was that most people never realized what talents, capacities, and depth they possessed. That Pogo had taken a full measure of himself must be one reason that Bibi so loved him.

There is the silence of death, found in tombs and deserted graveyards and in the cold-storage room in a city morgue and in hospital rooms on occasion; it is a flawless silence, not merely a hush but a void.

If you think about it, you were born into a world populated by the dead, because every one of them will die one day.

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

Any assemblage of frenetic images, bad music, and incoherent plot is called a major motion picture.

She watched a serrated formation of brown pelicans slice the sky and leave no scar.

The best weapons against evil were hope, optimism, determination, and faith.

I knew what love felt like, for I had loved Father and, less powerfully

Beyond the slumpstone wall lay a backyard, a swimming pool. Dappled with morning light and tree shadows, the water glimmered in shades of blue from sapphire to turquoise, as might a trove of jewels left by long-dead pirates who had sailed a sea since vanished.

She has these dark eyes as deep as galaxies. It's easy to get lost in them.

And bring her around to bear witness to my beautiful exploded cow and the villainy it represents.

Intensity. He believes in living with intensity.

she drove slowly into town as the gold and rose fingers of the dawn reached toward fading stars that eluded them.

By now, he should not be the least surprised by the capacity of evil people to deceive their credulous friends and neighbors—or by the unconscious preference of so many people to be deceived.

But with one exception, all things pass from this world and time erases not just memories but entire civilizations, reducing everyone and every monument to dust. The only that survives is love, for it is an energy as enduring as light, which travels outward from its source toward the ever-expanding boundaries of the universe, the very energy of which all things were conceived and with which all things will be sustained in a world beyond this world of time and dust and forgetting.

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.

Border to border, from sea to shining sea, police cars and other government vehicles had for some time been equipped with 360-degree license-plate-scanning systems that recorded the numbers of the vehicles around them, whether parked or in motion, transmitting them 24/7 to regional archives, which in turn shared the information with the National Security Agency's vast intelligence troves in its million-square-foot Utah Data Center.

And one form of heroism, about which few if any films will be made, is having the courage to live without bitterness when bitterness is justified, having the strength to persevere even when perseverance seems unlikely to be rewarded, having the resolution to find profound meaning in life when it seems the most meaningless.

Men and women who seek to become gods must first lose their humanity.

Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...

Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.

Even as I regarded those two men, I became aware of the flying beams of the spotlights, to the north-east, painting ephemeral infinity symbols across the pregnant clouds that increasingly commanded the sky, of the distant roller-coaster chain clacking through the ratchet angles of the guideway as cars full of riders climbed an incline toward the next long drop, of the dusty smell of the campground, and of the scent of rain pending.

hope and trust will more reliably keep a man afloat, while fear is more like to sink him.

Probably they prefer we don't see them, but they want us to know what's happening with the weather because fear debilitates. Maybe they want us frightened, cowering, and pliable.