Dean Koontz
"Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton."
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"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
"Life without meaningcannot be borne. We find a missionto which we're sworn--or answer the callof Death's dark horn. Without a gleaningof purpose in life,we have no vision,we live in strife,--or let blood fallon a suicide knife."
Dean Koontz
"He's a man," Themla said."I guess that explains it."Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetually half-crazed from excessive levels of testosterone, plagued by racial memories of the lost glory of mammoth-hunting expeditions - they're all alike."
Dean Koontz
"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 inscrutability can be an intriguing companion."
Dean Koontz
"Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?"
Dean Koontz
"What was destiny? What was the power that shaped the patterns and attempted to enforce them? God? Should she be raging at God - or begging Him to let her son live and to spare her from the life of a cripple? Or was the power behind destiny merely a natural mechanism, a force no different in origin from gravity or magnetism?"
Dean Koontz
"Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it."
Dean Koontz
"...any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to the fullest of one's ability, with a fierce commitment barely distinguishable from neurotic obsession. ... In fact...commitment to the point of obsession wasn't merely an obligation but a necessity..."
Dean Koontz
"Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy."
Dean Koontz
"In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance."
Dean Koontz
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