To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.
Dean KoontzI can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that because you can't keep the audience in suspense if they're laughing. My attitude was, if the character has a sense of humor, then that makes the character more real because that's how we deal with the vicissitudes of life, we deal with it through humor.
Dean KoontzNone of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one anotherโs salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.
Dean Koontz