Top 500 Dean Koontz Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “I think it’s perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.”

— Dean Koontz

452. “On the other hand, dogs eat with gusto, play with exuberance, work happily when given the opportunity, surrender themselves to the wonder and the mystery of their world, and love extravagantly.”

— Dean Koontz

453. “The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.”

— Dean Koontz

454. “There’s still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.”

— Dean Koontz

455. “I won’t be able to run with ghosts and slip down dark alleyways in quite the swift and stealthy fashion that I do now; but perhaps children will be amused by my hippopotamic heroics, and no one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable.”

— Dean Koontz

456. “The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.”

— Dean Koontz

457. “Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth.”

— Dean Koontz

458. “Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic...”

— Dean Koontz

459. “I’d guess that what’s behind you is much more than what lies ahead, though you have a way to go yet.”

— Dean Koontz

460. “Is it scarier than Jocko’s teddy bear being full of spiders waiting for bedtime so they can crawl in his ears when he sleeps and spin a web in his brain and turn him into a spider slave?”

— Dean Koontz

461. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

462. “Ed, once called Aladdin, is the first artificial intelligence I’ve ever known. Maybe if Harry can kill Hiskott and if then I live long enough to see the world become the total science-fiction theme park it seems to be headed toward, I’ll probably know dozens of them one day. Let me tell you, if they’re all as nice as Ed has turned out to be, that’s okay with me.”

— Dean Koontz

463. “I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.”

— Dean Koontz

464. “One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he’s the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.”

— Dean Koontz

465. “Home is where the heart is. No, nothing quite as simple as that. Home is where you struggle, in a world of endless struggle, to become the best you can be, and it becomes home in your heart only if one day you can look back and say that, in spite of all your faults and failures, it was in this special place where you began to see, however dimly, the shape of your soul.”

— Dean Koontz

466. “Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.”

— Dean Koontz

467. “You won’t find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.”

— Dean Koontz

468. “A politician’s goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.”

— Dean Koontz

469. “How easy it might be to think that with the casting down of this crystal manna, the great metropolis has been sanctified, that it is as innocent as these bridal veils make it seem.”

— Dean Koontz

470. “Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.”

— Dean Koontz

471. “I think it’s the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don’t write very well.”

— Dean Koontz

472. “Britney: You in a fight? Odd: No, It’s an employment-related fork wound.”

— Dean Koontz

473. “Humor is a petal on the flower of hope, and hope blossoms on the vine of faith. They have faith in each other and faith that life has meaning, and from this faith comes their indefatigable good humor, which is their greatest gift to each other – and to me.”

— Dean Koontz

474. “And your three-year-old Ford Explorer,” Terezin said, “bought without your parents’ money, a proud statement of your independence – of course it has a GPS.”

— Dean Koontz

475. “Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.”

— Dean Koontz

476. “Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. “Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk,” Sal said.”

— Dean Koontz

477. “Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.”

— Dean Koontz

478. “A truly nice smile combined with self-control can take a person a long way.”

— Dean Koontz

479. “While life could be evaded, death could not.”

— Dean Koontz

480. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

481. “Creation moves and astonishes if you let it. When I realize how unlikely it is that anything at all should live on this world spun together from dust and hot gases, that creatures of almost infinite variety should at night look up at the stars, I know that it’s all more fragile than it appears, and I think maybe the only thing that keeps the Earth alive and turning is our love for it.”

— Dean Koontz

482. “He knows the legend of the Wandering Jew who struck Christ on the day of the crucifixion and was then condemned to roam the world forever without rest. Some say this condemnation was in fact an act of grace because the devil can’t find and take a man whose remorse drives him to wander ceaselessly in search of absolution.”

— Dean Koontz

483. “Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn’t going to happen.”

— Dean Koontz

484. “We’re out of cocktail olives, it’s a tragedy of historic proportions, but we’re coping because we’re Americans.”

— Dean Koontz

485. “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

486. “Her eyes were clear; she hadn’t been crying. She was a cop’s wife first, a woman second; she wouldn’t give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him in spirit.”

— Dean Koontz

487. “Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...”

— Dean Koontz

488. “I never discuss a novel while I’m writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.”

— Dean Koontz

489. “When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made – which is difference from the world that is was given – my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world.”

— Dean Koontz

490. “I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.”

— Dean Koontz

491. “I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn’t enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.”

— Dean Koontz

492. “There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.”

— Dean Koontz

493. “If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn’t, maybe you need a different publisher.”

— Dean Koontz

494. “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”.”

— Dean Koontz

495. “Hands of Mercy and tanks of hell.”

— Dean Koontz

496. “Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it to immoral ends.”

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497. “Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?”

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498. “Never, never try to scope the market.”

— Dean Koontz

499. “Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.”

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500. “Out of the seething crowd, out of the light and the darkness, came Blossom Rosedale, the one and only Happy Monster, which was a name that she had given herself, not because she loathed the way she looked but because she was truly happy in spite of all her suffering.”

— Dean Koontz