But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

— Dean Koontz

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.

— Dean Koontz

But with one exception, all things pass from this world and time erases not just memories but entire civilizations, reducing everyone and every monument to dust. The only that survives is love, for it is an energy as enduring as light, which travels outward from its source toward the ever-expanding boundaries of the universe, the very energy of which all things were conceived and with which all things will be sustained in a world beyond this world of time and dust and forgetting".

— Dean Koontz

But with the morning almost gone, with seven bodices in the recreation room, with living boneyard stalking the storm, with Death opening the door to a luge chute and inviting me to go for a bobsled ride, I didn't have time to put on a victim suit and tell the woeful tale of my sorrowful childhood. Neither time nor the inclination

— Dean Koontz

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.

— Dean Koontz

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

— Dean Koontz

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

— Dean Koontz

Chyna Shepherd, untouched and alive and able to pee.

— Dean Koontz

Considering that the modern and contemporary literature taught in most universities is largely bleak, cynical, morbid, pessimistic, misanthropic dogmatism, often written by suicidal types who is a sooner or later kill themselves with alcohol or drugs, or shotguns, Professor Takeda was a remarkably cheerful man.

— Dean Koontz

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

— Dean Koontz