One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

I can love October in September. September doesn’t care.

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either.

Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.

Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.

I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

Dogs are one of those things that make you happy and make you wonder.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas

In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

Britney: You in a fight? Odd: No, It's an employment-related fork wound.

Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

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