Dean Koontz Quotes

Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...

~ Dean Koontz

...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

~ Dean Koontz

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

~ Dean Koontz

Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a sewer of irrationality, hate mongering, envy, and self-interest. I'm getting out the moment I earn my twenty-five-year pension package, and then I'm going to write novels...

~ Dean Koontz

Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.

~ Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

~ Dean Koontz

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

~ Dean Koontz

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

~ Dean Koontz

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

~ Dean Koontz

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

~ Dean Koontz