The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In time, however, I came to understand that one can adore and desire that which is forever beyond reach. This might, in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When he looked away from her, the bottles were gone and with them all the vertical and horizontal currents of water and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He, too, had been glassed-in for a long time, by choice. Now and then he had lifted a hammer to shatter through… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It seems reckless, even perverse, to spend so much time and effort nurturing such a deadly thing...Ernie and Pooka seek to understand… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Any thoughtful physicist, he said, well schooled in quantum mechanics, would agree that all time exists simultaneously, which I subsequently learned was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known… The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He believed that he must learn to accept the cold mechanics of Creation, because it made no sense to rail at a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“in time I came to see that of the many kinds of wilderness, the human heart can be the bleakest and the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Nowhere can a secret keep Always secret, dark and deep, Half so well as in the past, Buried deep to last, to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Waiting is one of the things that humans beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must… — 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
“Naomi doubted that any human being really understood math, they simply all pretended to have it down pat, when in truth they… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“in this dangerous time when shadows cast shadows of their own, when darkness often passed for light, the just and the unjust… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Everyone talks about justice, but there can be no justice where there is no truth, and these are times when truth is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character motivations.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“For the first time, he considered that utter indifference might inspire not inner peace but a limitless capacity for evil.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“...a wasted opportunity wasn't just a missed chance, but was a wound to your future. Miss too many opportunities, thus sustaining too… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Jane wondered...When the girl was not cleaning her suite, which wouldn't take much time, and when she was not making her meals,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an… — 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
