You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.