You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.