Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill… — 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
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
All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of… — 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
Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers… — 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
