“There's always a parade, Howie. When it's something you can't ever join but only watch, then it's a parade” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The sole purpose of existence is to open oneself to sensation and to satisfy all appetites as they arise.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“...wonder admits to the existence of mystery...recognition of mystery allows the possibility of Truth.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If she could seldom bring herself to touch me and even more seldom look at me directly, she nonetheless made a place… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Minute by minute, life was a continuous rolling of the dice, and that was as much gambling as she could handle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“She was reduced to the dependency of an infant, too terrified of life itself to find solace anywhere but in the familiar… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If the universe was a cold mechanism, if life was a journey from one empty blackness to another, he could not rant… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“wonder sometimes why those who theorize about the human mind can so easily believe in the existence of things they cannot see… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Is there some meaning to this life? What purpose lies behind the strife? Whence do we come, where are we bound? These… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Self discipline and respect come naturally when you truly believe that your life has a spiritual dimension and that you are carefully… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In life, little happens by chance, and most bad hands we’re dealt are the consequence of our actions, which are shaped by… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“IT’S ONLY LIFE. WE ALL GET THROUGH IT. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He is so new to this life and his abilities that he still amazes himself.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your life rolls away with you, like a big stone going downhill fast,” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He’ll also cut you some slack if you’re astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“reality is perception perception change…reality is fluid so if by reality you mean reliably tangible objects and immutable events then theres no… — dean koontz Copy Share Image
“She can put her life in Mitch's strong hands and fall at once into a dreamless sleep. In a sense, that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The sea delivered the message that life was nothing more than meaningless mechanics and cold tidal forces, a bleak message of hopelessness… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In life, little happens by chance, and most bad hands we’re dealt are the consequence of our actions, which are shaped by… — 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
