It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

One of the greatest gifts of life is having a chance to live as long as there are people on earth.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.