Quotes by Dean Koontz

...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.

To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burkes good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Chyna Shepherd, untouched and alive and able to pee.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something youre not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

Hand-to-hand combat with three hundred pounds of screaming monkey menace is not my idea of a fair fight. My idea of a fair fight is one unarmed, toothless, nearsighted old monkey versus me with a Blackhawk attack helicopter.

Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.

Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.

Darkness doesnt fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.

When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil in those people around whom they swarmed. Ive since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness.We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness, and misery.

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.

...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.

A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.