What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry? Dean Koontz More Quotes by Dean Koontz More Quotes From Dean Koontz In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience. Dean Koontz stories character book We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away. Dean Koontz true-evil literature ideas The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth. Dean Koontz ignorance lying cheating Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it. Dean Koontz psychology structure mean The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom. Dean Koontz fabric imagination reality It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility. Dean Koontz wizardry errors believe To a predator, fear indicates weakness. Dean Koontz predator weakness fear One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos. Dean Koontz men order ideas mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God. Dean Koontz mercy-of-god intelligent justice As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true. Dean Koontz lines law play Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations. Dean Koontz motivation character thinking When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee. Dean Koontz flower expectations hands It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed. Dean Koontz opinion speak soul When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. Dean Koontz hours week writing When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation. Dean Koontz desperation failing return Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice but to grow away from the tradition of savagery. Dean Koontz choices men science A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. Dean Koontz garlic pasta writing We live in God's amusement park. Dean Koontz amusement-parks amusement parks She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small and fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her. Dean Koontz fear hair heart Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one. Dean Koontz nadir ascent despair
