Escape!
Here are 20 wonderful nuggets of wisdom and faith from suspense novelist Dean Koontz
“As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope.”
“Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.”
Be silly
“Bunny slippers remind me of who I am. You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.”
Cream pie
“Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can.”
“Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos.”
“When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.”
Courage vs cowardice
“In defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin”
“Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul.”
Twirling!
“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”
“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends,” from the novel Forever Odd
Down the rabbit hole
“Reality isn't what it used to be,” from the novel The Taking.
“Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us. If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway,” from the novel The Taking.
“Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars,” from the novel Winter Moon
Happiness is a choice
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life – and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next,” from the novel Fear Nothing
“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make,” from the novel Life Expectancy
Insufficient!
“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”
“The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth,” from the novel Forever Odd
Responsibility
“There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses,” from the novel Intensity
“We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be,” from the novel Odd Thomas
“We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness,” Dean Koontz
Cake!
“Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake,” from the novel Life Expectancy
