“How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degrad...” — Dean Koontz Quote

“How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.”

“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.”

“Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.”

“I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.”

“Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?”

“The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.”

“The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.”

“This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.”

“The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...”

“Everything I’ve done and everything I’ve been is present in the same place. But we still think the thing that has just happened, or is about to happen, we think that’s the most important thing. My memories aren’t my memories, my present isn’t present, it’s all the same thing . . .”

“But even in his dissatisfaction he could not quiet the feeling that time was like a flash flood, so full, so brimming with things that must be done at once, but running out all the same, leaving an emptiness, a dry ditch in its wake.”

“If you don't know what's worth spending your time, ask yourself, if you were to die in five years, what would you do?”