“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...”

“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.”

“...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.”

“It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.”

“Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.”

“It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.”

“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as electric batteries- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as...”

“I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.”

“Iron turns red when it corrodes, and copper turns green. Meat turns to maggots, and thoughts turn to speech.”