“ We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscr… Dean Koontz
“ Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them? Dean Koontz
“ Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it. Dean Koontz
“ Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Dean Koontz
“ I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced. Dean Koontz
“ Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestr… Dean Koontz
“ I'm not much for parties. Sometimes you have to wear a funny hat, sometimes they expect you to eat sushi, which is like eating bait. And there's always some totally drunk girl who thinks you're smitte… Dean Koontz
“ ...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours. Dean Koontz
“ Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. Dean Koontz
“ He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it. Dean Koontz
“ More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps. Dean Koontz
“ Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from… Dean Koontz
“ If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself. Dean Koontz
“ That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world tu… Dean Koontz
“ Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. "There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to… Dean Koontz
“ These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another. This is a big request to make of… Dean Koontz
“ Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace. Dean Koontz
“ In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invisible, we have a daily darkness that is night, and we encounter another darkness from time to time t… Dean Koontz
