Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

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

Even if God exists, does He know that you do?

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls