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.

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.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

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...

Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human.

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.

The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind. Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?