“Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion. ”
“It’s good.’ She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked it or I didn’t. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.”
“A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. If only she believed them...”
“Americans were most likely good people...the only thing wrong with them, David thought, was that they spoke English very badly.”
“Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.”
“Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.”