Everyone Knows Dogs. Most People Love Dogs.

I Admire People Who Re-create Themselves. And It Seems To Me That What Gives Us All The Opportunity To Be Heroic In Our Own Lives Is That We Work To Heal Ourselves And Be Better Than We Were Yesterday.

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.

I Had A Big Akita, Yoshi, Who Was Fabulous. I Loved Him. We Lost Him When He Was 12, And I've Never Been Able To Replace Him. Normally, Most People Lose A Pet And Get Another And Keep Going On. But It Just Felt Wrong To Me; It Felt Disloyal.

Pike Put Down The Cat. He Slid From Pike's Arms Like Molasses And Puddled At His Feet.

What They Smell Isn't The Emotion Of Fear. What Dogs Can Smell Is The Changes In A Person's Skin That Suggest Fear To The Dog, Anxiety, The Way Your Skin Sweats, The Amount Of Uric Acid That Suddenly Pours Out Of Your Pores.