dean-koontz

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist

In this world only the paranoid survive.

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...

All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.

Holy men tell us life is a mystery.They embrace that concept happily.But some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.

As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul.

Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the stars or lighting the water for a moment on their death ride to the murky bottom.