There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
Dean KoontzGiven my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.
Dean KoontzWe yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.
Dean KoontzNot all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.
Dean Koontz