Quote

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

Dean Koontz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
Author
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Everett
Pennsylvania
Dean Ray Koontz
Aaron Wolfe
Brian Coffey
David Axton
Deanna Dwyer
John Hill
K.R. Dwyer
Leigh Nichols
Anthony North
Owen West
Richard Paige
Proportion
Extrapolate
Thanks
Cataclysmic
Terror
Disquieting
Anxiety
Proportions
Ears
Seize
Upon
Circus
Smallest
Observation

More quotes by Dean Koontz

Image
But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.
Dean Koontz
Image
A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
Dean Koontz
Image
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
Dean Koontz
Image
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
Dean Koontz
Image
When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.
Dean Koontz
Image
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
Dean Koontz
Image
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
Dean Koontz
Image
Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.
Dean Koontz
Image
I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.
Dean Koontz
Image
I never have lunch because it makes me foggy-headed.
Dean Koontz
Image
The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.
Dean Koontz
Image
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
Image
A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness
Dean Koontz
Image
People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.
Dean Koontz
Image
The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.
Dean Koontz
Image
Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
Dean Koontz
Image
We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.
Dean Koontz
Image
Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
Dean Koontz
Image
The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
Dean Koontz
Image
In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.
Dean Koontz