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

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives.

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

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

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.

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.