Quotes from Dean Koontz

when darkness often passed for light, the just and the unjust wore the same face.

I'm mainly a philatelist, though I know a lot about Tiffany

the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft a-gley.

Lem felt sick, not merely because of what had happened to Wes Dalberg but because of all the deaths yet to come. He was proud of both his management and investigatory skills, and he knew he could handle this case better than anyone else. But he was also a hardheaded pragmatist, incapable of underestimating the enemy or of pretending there would be a quick ending to this nightmare. He would need time and patience and luck to track down the killer, and meanwhile more bodies would pile up.

That fact had been disclosed in a magazine profile. How odd that those who loved the limelight could reveal personal details to curry favor with an interviewer and later forget what they had said.

She had appeared calmer to them

jury of the ignorant and a judge with issues would award millions to the trespasser.

A lesser mind might try to hide its brilliance behind a mask of stupidity. He chooses, instead, to conceal his true wisdom under a flamboyant pretense of erudition that he is pleased to let people think is the best of him.

Frawley the fixer followed in the Shelby Super Snake that had belonged to the late Painton Spader

The flesh on the nape of my neck did the crawly thing that it does so well. Some people say this is God's warning that the devil is near, but I've noticed I also experience it when someone serves me Brussels sprouts.

They seemed to have thought of everything, but they were human, and therefore they had definitely not thought of everything.

Art Nouveau, and Art Deco. Grandfather is the ace numismatist.

Intellect, courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy—each of those qualities was as important to the human species as all the others

Nobody wanted to read sucky novels, and those people who wanted deep meaning didn't want it in every damn story

Intuition alone determined for her what the patterns meant and what they suggested she should do. To her way of thinking, intuition was a word for perceptions that were received on a level far below the subconscious. Intuition was seeing with the soul.

At his computer, he accessed the National Crime Information Center website and went to the list of people for whom arrest warrants were outstanding. He sought the name Nathan Palmer—and began to make a list of curious facts.

I wish I could believe in reincarnation," I said. "Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again.

Sometimes I thought I couldn't wait, but then I always could. Because she gave me so much else and everything she gave me was more than a thousand other girls could ever give. All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that. I don't know what she saw in me, you know? But I could give her that much.

scarab. It's made of silver, tarnished at the moment, and adorned with some of the finest sapphires, rubies, and emeralds

I'm no John Grisham or Thomas Pynchon

Although it earned him a living, a suspense writer's imagination made him more aware of the constant proximity of death than were most people. Every dog was a potential rabies carrier. Every strange van passing through the neighborhood was driven by a sexual psychopath who would kidnap and murder any child left unattended for more than three seconds. Every can of soup in the pantry was botulism waiting to happen.

I have seldom crossed the city line of Pico Mundo and have never been beyond the boundaries of Maravilla County) The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.

You and people like you must have developed these places. You must believe you can come and go from them as anonymous as ghosts." He wanted to argue, persuade, litigate, but no jury waited to be convinced, no judge to rule in his favor. There was just Jane, who had no courtroom role. She was only, possibly, his executioner.

Preserve me from the enemy who has something to gain, and from the friend who has something to lose.