“The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind.”

“So a dog's value came from the training AND the breeding. And by breeding, Edgar supposed he meant both the bloodlines - the particular dogs in their ancestry - and all the information in the file cabinets. Because the files, with their photographs, measurements, notes, charts, cross-references, and scores, told the STORY of the dog - what a MEANT as his father put it.”

“She was from the bloodline of kings. He was from the bloodline of killers.’ (Carlos)”

“Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.”

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

“I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul”