Dean Koontz quotes

Dean Koontz is an American author famous for his suspense thrillers and horror novels. His works often blend elements of science fiction, mystery, and the supernatural. He has sold over 500 million copies worldwide, making him one of the bestselling writers of his genre. Here are 224 of his quotes:

Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.

Dean Koontz

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

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

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A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

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Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

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If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

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Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

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Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

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Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

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Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts".

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As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

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I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.

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When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

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When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.

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Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

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Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

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Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

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Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

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In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

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The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.

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Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

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