Top 500 Dean Koontz Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “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

452. “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

453. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

455. “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

456. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

459. “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

460. “I think it’s perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.”

— Dean Koontz

461. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

465. “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

466. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

469. “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

470. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

472. “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

473. “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

474. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

476. “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

477. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

479. “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

480. “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

481. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

483. “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

484. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

486. “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

487. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

489. “It is the purpose for which we exist. This reckless caring.”

— Dean Koontz

490. “When I noticed that some of the gray-haired ladies had tears in their eyes, I understood for the first time why music matters so much, how it reminds us of who we are and where we came from, of all the good times and the sadness, too.”

— Dean Koontz

491. “As much as I’ve produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn’t that – because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.”

— Dean Koontz

492. “Dreams that are as rich as cream while they unfold are skim milk when we wake, and in time they wash out of our minds, leaving as little residue as water filtered through cheesecloth.”

— Dean Koontz

493. “Their perpetual readiness for play is endearing, and their willingness to forgive deception time after time is one of the key differences between the heart of a dog and the human heart. Trixie.”

— Dean Koontz

494. “I often resorted: buckets, brooms, garden rakes, Granny Smith apples, cats that when thrown will reliably take out their fury not on the thrower but instead on the person at whom they’re thrown. I didn’t like throwing cats or animals of any kind, as far as that goes, but every once in a while, in a life-and-death situation, there was nothing to be done but grab a cat and throw it, or an angry ferret.”

— Dean Koontz

495. “I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton’s history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground.”

— Dean Koontz

496. “The sky, an inverted blue ceramic cauldron, poured out a hot dry brew.”

— Dean Koontz

497. “One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you’ve got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn’t just happenstance.”

— Dean Koontz

498. “When I’m working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.”

— Dean Koontz

499. “Be afraid in proportion to the threat.”

— Dean Koontz

500. “Hope lies in action.”

— Dean Koontz