{"author":"Dean Koontz","author_id":"Dean+Koontz","total_quotes":377,"quotes":[{"text":"Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["humor","life","problems"],"id":457,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"...What makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection.BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOONChapter 27 Page 214.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["humanity"],"id":920,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["bondage","book","book-critic","critic","wicked-looking"],"id":1554,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["belief","faith","life","meaning","odd-thomas"],"id":2075,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["eddie-fischer","life","meaning","mystery","odd-thomas"],"id":2926,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"When men in power decide that things need to be rebalanced at any cost, the violence is never brief and never really directed solely at the imbalance that supposedly inspired it. The rule of law becomes the rule of violence. Revenge becomes a synonym for justice. No city is safe from such horror, no nation, no time in all of history. Be ready to recognize the moment. Be always ready.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["corruption","power","revenge","violence"],"id":3732,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"When Victoria told me how intensely she hated me, I kept the Beretta aimed at her face, but heard myself say, 'I don't hate you.'She called me an effing liar and said, 'Hate makes the world go around. Envy, lust and hate.'I stopped hating anyone the day when I realized hating can't restore to me anything that's lost.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["hate","loathing"],"id":4562,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"More likely, they would just cease to exist.'That's death.'No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["brother-john","corpse","death","existence","odd-thomas"],"id":6320,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"After his dinner, the wolfhound liked to prowl the grounds, sniffing the grass to learn what creatures of field and forest had recently visited. The yard was Merlin's newspaper.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["dogs"],"id":8078,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["future","impatience","odd-thomas","patience","success","waiting"],"id":8311,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":377,"pages":38,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}