Henon Ataryeba

“Each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore the seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisoning people whom you have never met and never will. All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined – those dead, those living, those generations yet to come – that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.”
― Dean R. Koontz

“[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come, I would consider buying her a new one, the latest Dean R. Koontz or Stephen King or whatever, but I couldn't. I didn't want to encourage her. I couldn't touch my father's cigarettes, couldn't look at the Pall Mall cartons in the pantry. I was the sort of child who couldn't even watch commercials for horror movies - the ad for Magic, the movie where marionette kills people. sent me into a six-month nightmare frenzy. So I couldn't look at her books, would turn them over so their covers wouldn't show, the raised lettering and splotches of blood - especially the V.C. Andrews oeuvre, those turgid pictures of those terrible kids, standing so still, all lit in blue.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception.”
― Dean R. Koontz, Innocence

“Să ai patru principii care să te ghideze: unu, să faci cât mai puţin rău celorlalţi; doi, să fii întotdeauna alături de prietenii tăi; trei, să fii responsabil în ceea ce te priveşte şi să nu ceri nimic de la ceilalţi; patru, distrează-te cât se poate. Nu te sinchisi de părerile oricui, doar de cele ale persoanelor care-ţi sunt apropiate. Nu te gândi să laşi un semn al trecerii tale prin lume. Ignoră marile probleme ale timpului tău... Nu rămâne în trecut. Nu-ţi face griji cu privire la viitor. Trăieşte clipa. Ai încredere în scopul existenţei tale şi lasă înţelesurile să vină la tine, în loc să te străduieşti să le descoperi. Când viaţa îţi trage un pumn, rostogoleşte-te, dar râzând. Prinde valul, tipule!”
― Dean R. Koontz