Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Evil flourished everywhere, of course, in the country-side and in the suburbs, too, not merely within the boundaries of New York City.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance...the taproot...the killer's ultimate and truest motivation...is the hatred of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If evil geniuses are so rare, why do so many bad people get away with so many crimes against their fellow citizens,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“There's more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut, smash, or if… — dean koontz Copy Share Image
The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Evil is a faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“the recognition of Evil, not as it was portrayed by Disney villains, but as it was in fact: ruthless and irrational, selfish… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This kind of derangement is emblematic of humankind. Grave faults are said to be only eccentricities, and imperfections are routinely celebrated as mere differences… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two additional powers… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of Music, with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Waiting is one of the things that humans beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
