People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.


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In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of...
DEAN KOONTZ
Patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives, and the most common pattern is the circle.
DEAN KOONTZ
Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes ...
DEAN KOONTZ
Initially the snow had been beautiful, but not so much now. The softness and sparkle still charmed, ...
DEAN KOONTZ
Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force u...
DEAN KOONTZ
In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it ...
DEAN KOONTZ
In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen mom...
DEAN KOONTZ
I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having...
DEAN KOONTZ
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and p...
DEAN KOONTZ
Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I sai...
DEAN KOONTZ
Some big guys, they think struttin' the muscle will put your tail between your legs, but all they go...
DEAN KOONTZ
The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.
DEAN KOONTZ
Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life wo...
DEAN KOONTZ
They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the...
DEAN KOONTZ
Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.
DEAN KOONTZ
I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina."

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DEAN KOONTZ
Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drin...
DEAN KOONTZ
It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear...
DEAN KOONTZ
You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.
DEAN KOONTZ
From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...
DEAN KOONTZ
That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...
DEAN KOONTZ
She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she w...
DEAN KOONTZ
For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
DEAN KOONTZ
One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I...
DEAN KOONTZ
I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
DEAN KOONTZ
That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.
DEAN KOONTZ
Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
DEAN KOONTZ
The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with...
DEAN KOONTZ
The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen i...
DEAN KOONTZ
Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog...
DEAN KOONTZ
it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a...
DEAN KOONTZ
Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it ...
DEAN KOONTZ
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life c...
DEAN KOONTZ
There’s such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But ...
DEAN KOONTZ
He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was s...
DEAN KOONTZ
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
DEAN KOONTZ
He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not ...
DEAN KOONTZ
His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cat...
DEAN KOONTZ
The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them...
DEAN KOONTZ
But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s in...
DEAN KOONTZ
You amaze me and scare me. I can’t figure where you came from or how you got to be what you are, b...
DEAN KOONTZ