Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors. Dean Koontz More Quotes by Dean Koontz More Quotes From Dean Koontz ... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret. Dean Koontz ferrets ears book Y'all take care of yourself now... strange and interesting friends are hard to find. Dean Koontz strange care interesting From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity. Dean Koontz mad self doubt A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more. Dean Koontz lakes dark wings Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss. Dean Koontz thirteen insult kissing Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex. Dean Koontz gambling fun sex Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity. Dean Koontz clever life two Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night. Dean Koontz ignorance sleep night Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular. Dean Koontz sooner-or-later novelists Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth. Dean Koontz teeth expression friendship Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details. Dean Koontz swimming cat dog Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it. Dean Koontz mistake men long If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. Dean Koontz odd-thomas laughing facts Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal? Dean Koontz orange what-if pork Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal. Dean Koontz commerce eternal On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from. Dean Koontz one-day taken life He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later. Dean Koontz august hot two Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape. Dean Koontz eye people world Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future. Dean Koontz real ambition dream Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher. Dean Koontz smell games writing
