The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

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

Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.