Quotes from Dean Koontz

recreational drugs

Podemos caer en el amor: nunca es demasiado tarde. ¿Y por qué, entonces, dormimos odiando? Las creencias no requieren puntos suspensivos para ver que el Infierno es invención nuestra. Hacemos que el Infierno sea de verdad: alimentamos sus fuegos. Y en sus llamas mueren nuestra esperanzas. El Cielo, también, es simplemente una creación nuestra. Podemos otorgarnos nuestra propia salvación. Todo lo que se requiere es imaginación.

You wanted it once. You don't go as far as wanting it and then not wanting it anymore. A man's mind doesn't work that way.

emotionally, intellectually, psychologically, chronologically, and now even geographically

Mr. Vanadium, your quarter trick is really cool. But here's something out of Heinlein.

He doesn't wear gloves and won't bother to wipe down any surfaces prior to leaving, for

market firearms, and gangster gear as defined by GQ

transhumanism

why. Now she arrives at the realization that the why of evil is not to be found anywhere in the flaws of society or its institutions, nor can it be pinned down by even the most erudite and loquacious philosopher. The why of evil is in the human soul, which can't be examined with a CT scan or MRI to locate a dark mass, or dissected in an autopsy to learn in what artery the calcification proved mortal.

Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage

I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.

he has no fingerprints.

When a majority of people in any society share the same array of illusions and cling passionately to them, they will encourage one another until illusion becomes delusion, until delusion becomes mass insanity. Whole societies do go mad. History is filled with chilling examples. Joe Smith knew it when he built this house.

Biedermeier

She'd always chosen not to be victimized, to resist and fight back, to hold on to hope and dignity and faith in the future. But victimhood was seductive, a release from the responsibility and caring: Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

deliquescing

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

An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object too long at rest tends to have her throat slit.

who knew that humanity would one day reach childhood's end, who believed intellect could triumph over superstition and ignorance, and who dared to dream.

The thing pursuing him, however, was not only his past but also his fate, and the rails that led away from it also led inexorably to it.

He didn't mind killing children. He looked forward to it.

He doesn't wear gloves and won't bother to wipe down any surfaces prior to leaving, for he has no fingerprints. They were removed with the application of a series of lightly applied acids and CO2 laser treatments

May the judgment not be too heavy upon us.

Now, as she turns away from the water, intending to go to the house to have a glass of wine