Dean Koontz
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.Collection: Stars
In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.Collection: Glimpse
There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.Collection: Evil
My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.Collection: Purpose
Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.Collection: Mind
I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.Collection: Death
Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.Collection: Selfish
You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.Collection: Humanity
You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.Collection: Worry
Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.Collection: Perseverance
Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.Collection: Self
... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.Collection: Crowns
I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing.Collection: Real
No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.Collection: Would Be
...at it's best fiction is medicine.Collection: Medicine
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.Collection: Quality
While life could be evaded, death could not.Collection: Death
There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.Collection: Law
I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.Collection: Addiction
His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.Collection: Eye
I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.Collection: Mother
If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in fragments so minuscule that she could no more easily piece them together than she could gather from the beach all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides, and reassemble them into their original architectures.Collection: Beach
After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled.Collection: Mistake
Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.Collection: Fear
...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.Collection: Mind
The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.Collection: Worry
Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.Collection: Youth Of Today
Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.Collection: Quality
Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.Collection: Fun
Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.Collection: White
A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madnessCollection: Imagination
A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more.Collection: Dark
Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.Collection: Novelists
Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.Collection: Horse
At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.Collection: Lying
The hard rain nailed the night to the city.Collection: Rain
The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.Collection: Hard Work
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.Collection: August
Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.Collection: Eye
Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub.Collection: Tubs
Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.Collection: Kissing
I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.Collection: I Have Learned
Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.Collection: Heart
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch.Collection: Real
I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.Collection: Lost
Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.Collection: Beautiful
These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.Collection: People
Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.Collection: Soul