Dean Koontz

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

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.