“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. ”

“Andrea: "....I think a dog is a great idea. I just never pictured you with a mutant poodle.” Kate: “He isn’t a poodle. He’s a Doberman mix."Andrea: “Aha. Keep telling yourself that.”

“[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.”

“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”

“Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.”

“By the term cult I mean nothing derogatory to any group so classified. A cult, as I define it, is any religious group which differs significantly in one or more respects as to belief or practice from those religious groups which are regarded as the normative expressions of religion in our total culture.”