There will be something very wrong with any place we go.

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.

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.

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

It's not a real name, " she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Please don't drive drunk, okay? Seriously... But by all means, walk drunk. That looks hilarious. Everyone loves to watch someone act like they are trying to make it to safety during a hurricane.

Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It's the Swedish term for beef that is roasted.

If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.

I'm always searching for a signature sound and melody that resonates with the film and audience and becomes integral to the film, game, or show.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.