Quotes from Dean Koontz

Not as bad as a Sherpa

Not every case requires him to kill, but when he does, he kills known murderers whom the law will not touch or the courts acquit for one reason or another. Even though he is supported by a formidable organization with deep resources, which remains a mystery to him, his fingerprints have been removed to protect him. It's better to leave no prints behind.

A few thousand years of weather will eventually reduce a city to its component elements and fields of rubble, though its more restive citizens are likely to get the job done faster.

did not fear either the darkness of the night or the darkness under the sun that can sometimes crowd in upon us when we least expect it.

The pistol is a Springfield Armory TRP-Pro .45ACP. Five-inch barrel. Seven-round magazine. A sound suppressor.

The only monsters were people.

Ray Kurzweil

truth, there were no tracks of destiny through the chaos of life, only paths forged by decisions.

He looks back along the trail, in the direction from which he and the other foxes came.

Parker is twenty-three years old, celebrating his birthday

Hearts and minds heal with time, which is a grace of the human condition

Miracles were not given, they were earned.

It was mind that mattered, mind that cared, mind that loved, the best works of the mind that changed this hard world for the better

A fear that makes you shrink from the prospect of any further such experience is matched by a compulsion to see more and to understand.

In Greek mythology, Gordius was a peasant who became king of Phrygia. He tied an extremely complicated knot—the famous Gordian knot—that no one could untie. When Alexander learned that

Ray Kurzweil, dreamed of the Singularity, the moment when human and machine intelligence would merge

Under her restlessness and licentious pose is a repressed wholesomeness that will always make her regret devaluing herself, which, even in these strange times, he believes is true of more people than not.

They won't be merely children, but demigods incorporating the diverse attributes of many species.

morning that Lupo and Hamal pull back the curtain to reveal to Katie that California can be Hell on Earth.

Raising Amity provided sufficient meaning to make any life worth living. He didn't say as much to Amity

Grief becomes sorrow, and sorrow becomes—" "Enduring

This man on sixteen people's directories was named Alexander Gordius. To anyone lacking Woody's unique mind, the name would have looked like just another in a long list. But, to him, it seemed unlikely that someone would be named for both the creator of the Gordian knot and the man who solved it with a sword. To him it looked like a potential false identity.

The world's crawling with people who don't respect anyone or anything, but we're supposed to respect them, have compassion for the killers because they've been so poorly treated by life.

If we're guided only or even largely by emotion . . . Well, the heart often wants what it doesn't really need, and sometimes it wants what it shouldn't have, something with the potential to ruin your life. It wants something so intensely that we find it easy to do what the heart wants even if we know it's reckless.