Quotes from Dean Koontz

grossly evil people or very stupid people—or evil stupid people—are in charge of almost everything, and the good smart people are afraid to oppose them because the evil people are vicious and the stupid people are too clueless to see where all this is going, and the people who are both evil and stupid, well, they're the worst of all.

I'd settle for just getting my head above the shit line before I drown.

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

Dad had been dead for three years, and no one had been put in prison for murder. Everyone still thought his death had been an accident. Woody knew better. Now that he had at last finished "The Son's Revenge: Faithfully Compiled Evidence of Monstrous Evil," those individuals responsible would be brought to justice.

where the animals that wake and live in the absence of the sun are going about their business more peacefully than does humanity. There

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog.

Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death.

Canis latrans

Casinos have no windows, no clocks. The masters of the games want their customers to forget the passage of time, to lay down just one more bet, and then one more.

Considering the extreme violence and the cannibalism, Carson thought the public ought to be unduly alarmed. But his position was not elected, and having come from a city in which political power mattered more than any other force in society, he knew the folly of asserting the full truth of anything when those who had ascended through the ballot box preferred to support a version of the truth made more palatable to the voters.

she wants to put a few hundred more miles between them and Ringrock as fast as she can

The encounter unfolded as though the deer moved in different universes from ours, as if we were briefly visible to each other through some window between our realities. Having no substance in each other's realm, the SUV slid through the herd, and the frightened herd bounded past the SUV, and we didn't collide with any of them, although we must have missed more than one by a fraction of an inch.

Tenderness is false mercy. It's easy, emotion without reason. Mercy takes strength, courage, love. Tender-hearted folks will never be there for you when the dark is darkest.

Unrequited love.

Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog had meant to him, his chest grew tight with emotion.

Now, Gunner takes her call, as though they had spoken only yesterday

Life has taught her that it's mentally exhausting and spiritually depressing

an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...

nothing but a pile of bloody garbage.

In the company of other people, Amy had little tolerance for quiet. Enduring mutual silences, she sometimes felt as though the other person might ask a terrible question, the answer to which, if she spoke it, would shatter her as surely as a hard-thrown stone will destroy a pane of glass.

Arinwald's favorite film has become the version of 1984 starring John Hurt and Richard Burton; the moment that most satisfies in that production is when Burton says to Hurt, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog.

Only old retired coots and gold-digging bimbos live in Florida.

to waste energy and time fanning the flames of anger