If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind.

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

Reality isn't what it used to be.

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

Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.