Dean Koontz Quotes

Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.

Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a sewer of irrationality, hate mongering, envy, and self-interest. I'm getting out the moment I earn my twenty-five-year pension package, and then I'm going to write novels...

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.

Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.

...your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...