Dean Koontz

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.