Edward Hoagland

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

A writer's work is to witness things.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.