Dean Koontz

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.