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
Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton. - 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
In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin. - Dean Koontz
Maybe magic and love, together, can achieve what magic alone cannot. - Dean Koontz
I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death. - 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
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
The truth was stranger than the official fiction. - 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
Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them? - Dean Koontz
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. - Dean Koontz
Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it. - Dean Koontz
Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have. - Dean Koontz
Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what. - Dean Koontz