If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.