“(I have seldom crossed the city line of Pico Mundo and have never been beyond the boundaries of Maravilla County) The joys… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“We are what we are, he thought, and maybe the only time we can change what we are is when life throws… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small… — 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
Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you can bear to give it because… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I celebrate death. Death makes room for new life. I die every day and rise again. Those weaker creatures who die and… — 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
“I tend to believe in the traditional architecture of life and the afterlife. This world is a journey of discovery and purification.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If the universe was a cold mechanism, if life was a journey from one empty blackness to another, he could not rant… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Variety is not the spice of life. It is the mother of disorder. Individuality is not the hallmark of freedom. It is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Each life is a spool of thread that unravels through the years, and it is by a thread that we are so… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“... we are in this boot camp to learn, that if we don't persevere through all this world's obstacles and all its… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“As a teenager, I always intended to do my homework. But when the supplicant dead come to you for justice and you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Always questioning your motivations is a healthy thing, but fearing your capacity for doing the wrong thing so that you retreat from… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In life, little happens by chance, and most bad hands we’re dealt are the consequence of our actions, which are shaped by… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in… — 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
“Imminent death didn't terrify her as much as did the prospect of having lived a life in perpetual retreat, a life that… — 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
“Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to… — 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… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Life was a racing river of many currents, yet all the undertows and raging rapids were not merely survivable but were also… — 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
On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter,… — 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
