People Want You To Be Ordinary.

I Began To Encounter Real-life Stories Of Dogs Protecting Their Wounded Or Dying Or Dead Handler... Or Dogs Refusing To Leave The Bodies Of The People They Were Bonded To, Sitting In Cemeteries For Days Or Sometimes Weeks. You Find These Stories Endlessly.

Efficiency And Focus Are The Keys To Success.

Some Of Us Find Our Way With A Single Light To Guide Us; Others Lose Themselves Even When The Star Field Is As Sharp As A Neon Ceiling. Ethics May Not Be Situational, But Feelings Are. We Learn To Adjust, And, Over Time, The Stars We Use To Guide Ourselves Come To Reside Within Rather Than Without.

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.

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.