Dean Koontz

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. 

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. 

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. 

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

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate. 

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. 

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. 

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. 

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. 

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

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. 

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. 

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. 

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month. 

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. 

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society. 

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.