“That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Amalia insisted he wasn’t cold, but only wounded by life and emotionally isolated.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Imagination was so powerful that you had to be careful because you could imagine things into existence that you might regret.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live… — 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… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The why of the mind's existence and the how of its profound capacity to reason - especially its penchant for moral reasoning… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of… — 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
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
All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When you keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the best of motives, there is a danger that you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When you keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the best of motives, there is a danger that you… — 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
“All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined those dead, those living, those generations yet to come that the fate of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices,… — 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
“These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If anyone in your publishing life were to argue against a particular book or a career aspiration for reasons you had not… — 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
