Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet.

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

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.

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.

Dreaming is good, without working on it's simply a myth!

Yeah, it always amazes me how quickly people turn into good little socialists when they run out of their stuff. As long as they have something, it's theirs. Let them run out, and you need to share.

There's more to life than movies.

I need a little sugar in my bowl and a little hot dog in my roll.

I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.

You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.

A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.

Slamdance actually is indie and rebellious. Sundance obviously felt threatened.