I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.

The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.

All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.

Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

Those who lack courage, can’t be kind for kindness is a state of courage.

when you know more than you know, there's more to know

Feelings are not facts

Seth discovered that night that he had two extra stomachs

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.

Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not.

Whether it's about children or not, we have to move forward.

I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.