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.

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

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.

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.

The deletion of logic is through....LoveAcceptanceForgiveness Compassion Understanding Faith in the unknownPresent Moment Living Conscious Breathing

Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of school for courage, willpower and self-confidence.

What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.

I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

but i know blue only blue lonely blue without you

I get a kick out of it, but it would be stupid to let it go to my head. It's modeling - I didn't find the cure for cancer.

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.