“...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we… — 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
In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows — 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
In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex,… — 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
What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Anyway,” he said, “if somebody doesn’t belong in the world, there’s no door they can throw him out. They can’t take the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Among the nations of Earth in all its history, ours is one of the precious few that has not brought forth its… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Be of the world and in the world and above the world all at once. Be you and only you,” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility; the world is balanced on… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the… — 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
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from… — 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
