A broken thing can't fix itself.

— Dean Koontz

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.

— Dean Koontz

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

— Dean Koontz

After his dinner, the wolfhound liked to prowl the grounds, sniffing the grass to learn what creatures of field and forest had recently visited. The yard was Merlin's newspaper.

— Dean Koontz

A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

— Dean Koontz

A high degree of intelligence yes in no other creature in the natural world. That's why nature shuns us and why we subconsciously hate her and seek to obliterate her. High intelligence leads to the concept of progress. Progress leads to nuclear weapons, bioengineering chaos and ultimately to annihilation.

— Dean Koontz

Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model. But she's pretty in her way.

— Dean Koontz

All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.

— Dean Koontz

All death matters."" Only to the living.

— Dean Koontz

All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

— Dean Koontz