The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.
Dean KoontzImagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?
Dean KoontzBut once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, itโs like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You canโt just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.
Dean KoontzI think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
Dean KoontzIn tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.
Dean Koontz