Quotes by Dean Koontz

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.

the divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we dont deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals.

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

In this world only the paranoid survive.

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

In a book, even the real bastards cant hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no ones there to see you cry. Or wonder why you dont cry when you should.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You cant eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

I am the One, and I see all.But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldnt have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now.

people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace

He once told me that an August evening was as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart, a comparison that left me blinking two days later.

Hes got a chloroform-soaked rag in one hand, and before Judy realizes whats happening, the dude is all over her like fat on cheese.