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

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

...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.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

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...

I’m memorizing what takes me away. What saves me.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

My parents were both entrepreneurs.

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.

Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.

When we were filming, I thought that I was Peter Pan, you know? I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.