"No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich."

“I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.”

“If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.”

“Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.”

“The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.”

“No path back home is better than any other path.”

“Christ, I'm in a Doris Day movie”

“When you ask for the house, car, cat, dog and all the fish when you're dealing with a player who's got questions about his health, no GM in his right mind is going to say yes and offer to clean the aquarium, too.”

“Everybody wants a solution on how to help their dogs, but we can't really see the problem until we reconnect ourselves to our instinctual self.”