More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.

It has been 20,000 years since man and dog formed their partnership.

Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!

I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.

A young dog's faith is absolute... Dogs are notorious for hope. Dogs believe that this morning, this very morning, may begin a day of fascination, easily grander than any day in the past.

Once they become AKC registered, the newspapers will become flooded with ads for them. And you'll see Border collies in pet stores and animal shelters.

I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.

I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

I'm like, "Let me marry a feminist, let's do this thing." It's about time men should show up and say, "Yes, she should have access to whatever she needs."

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.