You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that you have done. Absolution grants you forgiveness for it, but does not expunge the past. The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.

— Dean Koontz

You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.

— Dean Koontz

You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.

— Dean Koontz

You 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 Koontz

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

— Dean Koontz

You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.

— Dean Koontz

You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.

— Dean Koontz

You're this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest

— Dean Koontz

...your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...

— Dean Koontz

Your past is my Future.

— Dean Koontz