All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. Its sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.

— Dean Koontz

Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.

— Dean Koontz

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

— Dean Koontz

Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Tombaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace.

— Dean Koontz

Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been through, by now I should have lost one leg, three fingers, one buttock, most of my teeth, an ear, my spleen, and my sense of fun. But here I am.

— Dean Koontz

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded too much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

— Dean Koontz

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

— Dean Koontz

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

— Dean Koontz

...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...

— Dean Koontz

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

— Dean Koontz