In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be anything from a crowbar to a cat, though if I had a choice, I would prefer an angry cat, which I have found to be more effective than a crowbar. Although weaponless, I left the house by the back door, with two chocolate-pumpkin cookies. It's a tough world out there, and a man has to armor himself against it however he can. ~Odd Thomas

When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world.

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