I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.

Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge.