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Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.

Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.

Dean Koontz
Eye, Evil, Looks
Dean R. Koontz (1994). “Three Complete Novels”, Putnam Adult

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

Dean Koontz
Evil, World, Realist

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.

Dean Koontz
Heart, Love Is, Evil

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

Dean Koontz
Real, Book, Evil

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

Dean Koontz
Evil, Excuse, Explanation
Dean Koontz (2007). “Intensity: A Novel”, p.433, Bantam

We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

Dean Koontz
People, Evil, Laughing
Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.139, Bantam

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

Dean Koontz
Thinking, Evil, Balance
Dean Koontz (2011). “Frankenstein: The Dead Town: A Novel”, p.262, Bantam

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

Dean Koontz
Evil, Would Be, Faces
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.19, Bantam

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

Dean Koontz
Two, Evil, Literature
"Contemplating Evil: An Interview with Dean Koontz". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Lisa Snell, Reason magazine, reason.com. November, 1996.

Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

Dean Koontz
Children, Evil, Want
Dean Koontz (2010). “Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein, Book 3)”, p.36, HarperCollins UK

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