All death matters.""Only to the living.

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

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

I was like a thought slipping through the fissures...

Bob Riley, a kind soul who “treads lightly in this world,” is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.

I think I've got the best job around.

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.