Quotes by Dean Koontz

“And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.”

“Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.”

“A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore co...”

“...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.”

“Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.”

“Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and...”

“Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.”

“Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...”

“It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.”

“It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.”

“A broken thing can't fix itself.”

“Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.”

“Her eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn't give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him i...”

“Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-i...”

“It's only life. We all get through it.”

“All death matters.""Only to the living.”

“What has been is no more. Change has come.”

“The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.”

“Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.”

“Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. Yo...”