Dean Koontz Quotes

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

Reality has always had too many heads.

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

We are what we seem to be.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

Truth resists simplicity.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...