"Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time - affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil." (Dean Koontz, "From the Corner of His Eye", 2000)
"Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard." (Dean Koontz, "One Door Away from Heaven", 2001)
"Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph." (Dean Koontz, "One Door Away from Heaven", 2001)
"No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make." (Dean Koontz, "Life Expectancy", 2004)
"A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost." (Dean Koontz, "The Good Guy", 2007)
"Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens." (Dean Koontz, "The Good Guy", 2007)
"Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp - and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble." (Dean Koontz, "Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog", 2009)
"Nothing can be imagined, nothing can be visualized in our minds, until we have a word for it." (Dean Koontz, "Odd Apocalypse", 2012)
"Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations." (Dean Koontz, "Odd Apocalypse", 2012)
"Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well - and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told." (Dean Koontz, "Innocence", 2013)
"To understand the universe, our world, and all life in the world, you have to step out of time, which for living humanity is not an option, because we are a part of this painting, characters within it, able to perceive it only as a continuing series of events, episodes. However, because we are conscious creatures with the gift of reason, we can seek and learn and extrapolate from what we learn, and conceive the truth." (Dean Koontz, "Innocence", 2013)
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