“Politics was an illusion of service that cloaked the corruption of power.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I avoid contemporary TV...politics...art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level… — 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
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“faithless priests molesting children, politicians riding to reelection by the agitation of class envy: All these and numerous” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“These days law thinks it's about nothin' but laws. Law don't remember it was once handed down from somewhere, that it once… — 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
“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 was as strong as the other: love and imagination. OF the three, God and love were always good. Imagination, however, could be good or bad. Mozart imagined great music into existence. Hitler imagined death camps and… — 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 a wicked pervert who would cut off my peepee with a pair of scissors...if I didn't stop chattering about him, he would be certain to put me on his list and look me up. Christmas 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 to see them. - Addison Goodheart pg. 119” — 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 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
