Everyone knows dogs. Most people love dogs. I think most American families probably have a dog, but I don't think people really realize or understand just how wonderful and special dogs are.

A dog could see your heart in your eyes, Budress told him, and dogs were drawn to our hearts.

She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

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

Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.

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.

People want you to be ordinary.

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!

Crazy was better than in love. You could walk away from crazy without regrets.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

Consult your spirit, your soul on everything.

Yesterday, Saddam Hussein got 100 percent of the vote. Well, that's according to Saddam's campaign manager, Jeb Hussein.

My fans aren't obsessed. They're just incredible and devoted.

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.