Quotes by Dean Koontz

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept

In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate.

These days, 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. This is a big request to make of busy Fate, who has billions of lives to keep in constant turmoil.

You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.

Fate isnt a straight road, I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

These days, all I ask 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.

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other peoples free will when they decided to do the Devils work.

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

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth.

Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth. The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, make sit impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small fragment of the whole.

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

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

Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance...the taproot...the killers ultimate and truest motivation...is the hatred of truth...the hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldnt let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.