Oyster Bar Sayings

#1. 'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind.

Jenna Blum

#2. When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.

Anthony Bourdain

#3. Never do what you can't undo until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it.

Robin Hobb

#4. For me 'Thank You'. This word has a very deep meaning.

Yunho

#5. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #5: HEALING TAKES MUCH LONGER THAN YOU THINK. THE BIGGEST SCARS YOU CARRY AREN'T THE ONES YOU CAN SEE.

Mark Frost

#6. You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Power is what is required to change the universe - to change yourself into what you might like to be.

Frederick Lenz

#8. I must have books everywhere. They're the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#9. If someone gets a bigger house, does that automatically make them happy? Maybe for a second. But then they worry about the bigger house and how to take care of it.

Robert Thurman

#10. I did a club one night - the speakers were old as hell. My jokes were coming out in black and white.

J. B. Smoove

#11. Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.

Joyce Carol Oates

#12. Absolutely nothing. That's what I'm going to do for two weeks. Not think. If I start to think, I'm going to think really hard about not thinking until I quit thinking.

James Dashner