Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.

This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.