Dean Koontz Quotes

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Things are not always as they seem.

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

Things don't always look as they seem.

But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.

I hate giving away tricks, you have to create an impression and not an image. You want audiences to look at certain places and not look at other places. And when you've got the help of modern-day abilities with technology, it's a much more natural look.

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

The whole world is run on bluff.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

Very few of us are what we seem.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances.

The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

In my business, my job is to make people believe they are seeing something they're not seeing.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.