Quotes by Dean Koontz

Stormy Llewellyn, a woman of unconventional views, believes instead that our passage through this world is intended to toughen us for the next life. She says that our honesty, integrity, courage, and determined resistance to evil are evaluated at the end of our days here, and that if we come up to muster, we will be conscripted into an army of souls engaged in some great mission in the next world. Those who fail the test simply cease to exist.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we dont know.

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

Where does fiction end and reality begin?

Human beings not only cant bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesnt force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.

In his mind he saw them standing with the tips of their organs pressed together ejaculating into each others penis.

If youre going to keep the music in you, Jonah, youve got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, youll lose the joy of it, and if you lose the joy, you wont sound good to those who know piano - or to yourself.

Our culture sentimentalizes children, and we forget one of the things that we should most remember from that time of our lives: Children know that this world can be hard on them, harder than it is on adults. They are physically weaker than adults, financially dependent, and in times of danger, nothing clarifies our thinking more than an awareness of our extreme vulnerability.

All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.

Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesnt mean that you can easily rebuild it.

Her eyes were clear; she hadnt been crying. She was a cops wife first, a woman second; she wouldnt give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him in spirit.

Its only life. We all get through it.

All death matters.Only to the living.

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider its the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

What was destiny? What was the power that shaped the patterns and attempted to enforce them? God? Should she be raging at God - or begging Him to let her son live and to spare her from the life of a cripple? Or was the power behind destiny merely a natural mechanism, a force no different in origin from gravity or magnetism?

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.