Quotes from Dean Koontz

Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.

Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either.

I can love October in September. September doesn't care.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.

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.

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

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.

Maybe magic and love, together, can achieve what magic alone cannot.

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.