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Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 10

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My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.

My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.

Love, Age, Brutality

Dean Koontz (2013). “Wilderness (Short Story)”, p.30, Bantam

Dogs are one of those things that make you happy and make you wonder.

Dog, Wonder, Make You Happy

"The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in large corporations or governments, when great power accumulates in their hands, some become monsters even with good intentions.

Gratitude, Race, Government

Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.87, Bantam

Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest and that therefore is simple enough in their wants and needs to remain innocent. The combination of their innocence and their intelligence allows them to serve as a bridge bewtween what is transient and what is eternal, between the finate and the infinate.

Dog, Simple, Order

Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.670, Bantam

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-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them.

Journey, Men, Thinking

The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.

Dream, Struggle, Heart

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.143, Bantam

It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you think, when the doors are closed in other houses, this is what it's like everywhere. And then at some point you begin to realize that isn't true, and books were really the educational system that showed me that there were many better and different ways to live a life.

Educational, Book, Kids

"The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Fate, Different, Path

Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.149, Bantam

What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.

Thinking, Cells, Adults

"The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

Lying, Commitment, Age

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Teacher, Loss, Said

Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1003, Bantam

All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines.

Fate, Evil People, Bipolar

Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.742, Bantam

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

Crowns, Bitterness, Worn

I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing.

Real, Writing, Class

"The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

Eventually, as my books became best-sellers, the nickels pile up and one day I was offered a substantial four-book deal that was lucrative as any airliner hijacking in history. Though writing those four books was hard work, at least I didn't have to wear Kevlar body armor, carry heavy bandoliers of spare ammunition, or work with associates named Mad Dog.

Dog, Book, Hard Work

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

Would Be, Redemption, Scarring

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

Medicine, Fiction

Dean Koontz (2006). “Mr. Murder”, p.207, Penguin

The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.

Quality, Inability, Details

Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.169, Bantam

While life could be evaded, death could not.

Death

Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.340, Bantam

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

Law, Justice, These Days

"One Door Away from Heaven". Book by Dean Koontz, 2001.

I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.

Addiction, Twelve, Needs

Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1063, Bantam

His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.

Eye, Blue, Sea

Dean Koontz (2007). “From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel”, p.61, Bantam

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Waiting, Sometimes, Hardest

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

Peace, Kings, Sometimes

the worst happens when you least expect it

Worst, Happens

Dean Koontz (2008). “Watchers”, p.293, Penguin

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