We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.

People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.

I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.

for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.

When we move apart, she looks at me again, till a small tear lifts itself up in her eye. It trips out to find a wrinkle and follows it down.

A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.