The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Y'all take care of yourself now... strange and interesting friends are hard to find. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.” — 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
In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Friendship does not depend on conversation. Sometimes the most important communication is not mouth to ear, but heart to heart.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When she had delight in her heart, her face transcended all her suffering, whereupon the scars and the deformed features and the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask… — 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
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage… — 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
“For a better part of a decade, he had been outside society, distanced in mind and spirit if not in body. But… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“...if one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. How else would one learn to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“After six years of solitude, sharing a meal and conversation with someone was a pleasure. More than a pleasure, her hospitality and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask… — 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
“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
