I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.
Dean KoontzYou can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.
Dean KoontzMaybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.
Dean KoontzSometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives. A stranger appears and speaks a few words of wisdom, solving a previously insoluble problem, or something in a recent dream transpires in reality. Suddenly the existence of God seems confirmed.
Dean KoontzWhat year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.
Dean KoontzThereโs just something unsettling about studying your reflection. Itโs not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe itโs that when you gaze into your own eyes, you donโt see what you wish to seeโor glimpse something that you wish werenโt there.
Dean Koontz