The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.

I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

I remember my wife in white.' It just made people weep to hear it...Everybody just thought it was the saddest sentence that was ever written. And it didn't matter if I never wrote another word. This one sentence had put an end to the need for any future sentences. I had said it all.

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.

It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.