I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.

We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.

We should not accept an evil we can change.

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.

8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn't cheat on you, you will always know he's capable of it and will never fully trust him. Then you will become even more insecure and neurotic than you already are.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.