A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Although there was much I wanted to say, I knew that I should not. His mind and heart were out of alignment,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“in ecstasy, it is essentially not about sensation but about passion, and passion is not of the flesh but of the mind… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Either the gates of hell had opened, or Tom had lost his mind; for there could be nothing like this entity outside… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“My supernatural gift might reside not in my mind instead in my heart. The heart is an artist that paints over what… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Wealth had not corrupted him. What he’d chosen to do with his wealth corrupted him. First he insulated himself from ordinary human… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In his mind he saw them standing with the tips of their organs pressed together ejaculating into each other's penis.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“the recognition of Evil, not as it was portrayed by Disney villains, but as it was in fact: ruthless and irrational, selfish… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries. — 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
