Quotes by Dean Koontz

“He considered razing the house and rebuilding, but he realized that houses are not haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves,our ghosts stay with us until we ours...”

“It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.”

“You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.”

“That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world...”

“I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.”

“Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.”

“Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.”

“...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.”

“Initially the snow had been beautiful, but not so much now. The softness and sparkle still charmed, but the storm occluded the sky, denying us the stars. At the moment, I needed to see a firmament ...”

“Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that i...”

“Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to every other point, regardless of apparent distance. In some mysterious way, any point on a planet in...”

“As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has.”

“Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.”

“If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.”

“There will be something very wrong with any place we go.”

“It's only life. We all get through it.Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through ...”

“..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.”

“Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we admit t...”

“Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our...”

“With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.”