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born 1945 United States
Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945), also known under a number of pseudonyms, including Leigh Nichols, is an American writer best known as a prolific and best-selling author of suspense novels.
United States Novelists Science fiction authors Also known as: Dean R. Koontz, Koontz, Dean, Koontz, Dean R., The Voice of the Night, Voice of the Night
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"Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake."
Life Expectancy (2004)
Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.
Midnight (1989)
Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.
Odd Thomas (2003)
A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
Lightning (1988)
I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants […] Fear implies respect.
One Door Away from Heaven (2001)
They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.
He's a hollow man. He believes in anything. Hollow men are vulnerable to anyone who offers them something that might fill the void and make them feel less empty.
Did you get the leash on him yet, Einstein?
Watchers (1987)
Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
Seize the Night (1999)
Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.”
In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.
The Good Guy (2007)
When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.
When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject — if I have a serious interest in it.
My name is Odd Thomas, though in this age when fame is the altar at which most people worship, I am not sure why you should care who I am or that I exist.
Odd Thomas (2003)
Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.
The Taking (2004)
Evidently, Ted had walked down the block from his own house and entered with the intention of fixing something. Now Ted was broken, too, and beyond repair.
Watchers (1987)
Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.
Forever Odd (2005)
… less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.
Brother Odd (2006)
He considered himself to be a thoroughly useless man, taking up space in a world to which he contributed nothing — but he did have a talent for baking… The gas oven might blow up in his face, at last bringing him peace, but if it didn't, he would at least have cookies for Agnes.
It's so damn hard to bloom… to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without… love.
Watchers (1987)
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