A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness
Dean KoontzHuman beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.
Dean KoontzThe broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.
Dean KoontzMore to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.
Dean KoontzOr maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.
Dean KoontzI'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.'
We don't have pigeons.'
Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.
The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.
Dean KoontzThis world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.
Dean KoontzI won't be able to run with ghosts and slip down dark alleyways in quite the swift and stealthy fashion that I do now; but perhaps children will be amused by my hippopotamic heroics, and no one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable.
Dean KoontzI am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.
Dean KoontzTags: odd-thomas
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