Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
Dean KoontzOn those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.
Dean KoontzNever leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.
Dean KoontzHe once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.
Dean Koontz