You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.

We all belong here equally...Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.

My mother smoked too but I guessed by now she had quit the habit, which was, I supposed, one of the advantages of being shipwrecked.

All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.

The only really interesting things about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.