Koontz Quotes

“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.”
― Dean Koontz, Midnight

“Now take my hand and hold it tight.
I will not fail you here tonight,
For failing you, I fail myself
And place my soul upon a shelf
In Hell's library without light.
I will not fail you here tonight.”
― Dean Koontz, The Book of Counted Sorrows

“We have a weight to carry
and a distance we must go.
We have a weight to carry,
a destination we can't know.
We have a weight to carry
and can put it down nowhere.
We are the weight we carry
from there to here to there.”
― Book of Counted Sorrows

“In August of 1998, I completed Seize the Night, the sequel to my novel Fear Nothing, one of many of my books in which a dog is among the cast of principal characters. Every time I wrote a story that included a canine, my yearning for a dog grew. Readers and critics alike said I had an uncanny knack for writing convincingly about dogs and even for writing from a dog's point of view. When a story contained a canine character, I always felt especially inspired, as if some angel watching over me was trying to tell me that dogs were a fundamental part of my destiny if only I would listen.”
― Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

“Art is the only answer to chaos and the void.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“When steel sagged, when clothes grew moth-eaten on haberdashery racks, when cars rusted on showroom floors for want of customers, the film industry nevertheless flourished. In bad times as in good, the only two absolute necessities were food and illusions.”
― Dean Koontz, The Face

“Every palace and every work of art is only dust as yet unrealized, and time is the patient wind that will whither it all away.”
― Dean Koontz, The Face

“He is like a man living through the night before doomsday, with full knowledge that the sun will go nova in the morning, yet unable to enjoy the precious pleasures of this world because all his energy is devoted to wishing desperately that the foreseen end will not, after all, come to pass.”
― Dean Koontz, The Face

“Naomi doubted that any human being really understood math, they simply all pretended to have it down pat, when in truth they were every bit as confused by it as she was. Math was nothing but a giant hoax, and everyone participated in it, everyone faked belief in math so they could be done with hideous classes and the drudgery of the hateful homework and get on with life. The sun came up every morning, so the sun was real, and every time you inhaled you got the air you needed, so the atmosphere was obviously real, but half the time when you tried to use math to solve the simplest problem, the math absolutely would not work, which meant that it couldn't be real like the sun and the atmosphere. Math was a waste of time.”
― Dean Koontz, What the Night Knows

“Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. You can't worry about them for a minute. They're hopeless.”
― Dean Koontz, The Face

“Dogs can be trained to be civilized & dutiful, but they can't be coerced into repressing their unique personalities, as can many human beings who will remake themselves into automatons & enchain their own souls in the name of one ideology or another.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forest of Lost Souls

“Dean Koontz always find way out of the horror and when it's about silence he should be the first image.”
― Deyth Banger

“What starts out here [in the US} as a mass movement ends up a racket, a cult, or a corporation.”
― Eric Hoffer

“The world is strange beyond knowing, and life is a journey through wonders, toward mystery.”
― Dean Koontz