In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
On the road that I taken, one day, walking, I awaken, amazed to see where I have come. Where I'm going, where… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives.… — 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
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
On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit… — 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
Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“For those who dispair that their lives are without meaning and without purpose, for those who dwell in a lonelines so terrible… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image