The Forest of Lost Souls

by Dean Koontz

“Nothing,” Vida replies, “is more dangerous than a man who has no humility, who sees himself as a savior but lacks mercy and pity, lacks any quality of the divine, let alone divinity itself.”

those who lust and live for power contribute nothing useful to the world other than the nutrients that their decomposition will add to the soil.

Dogs can be trained to be civilized and dutiful, but they can’t be coerced into repressing their unique personalities, as can many human beings who will remake themselves into automatons and enchain their own souls in the name of one ideology or another.

Since he was a boy, dogs have taught him how to be a good man, how to give without expecting to receive, how to live with joy in the moment, how to be stoic in suffering.