Donald McCaig

It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's. ”

The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them. ”

I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily. ”

I'm a workaday writer. ”

What we didn't realize then - and one of the many things Timothy Leary was wrong about - is that when you drop out, you inevitably also drop in. ”

When people say what is 'Gone With the Wind' about, they say it's a love story between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. But Mammy is almost a third party. ”

In life, sometimes it pays off when you really don't give a damn. ”

Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us. ”

I am built funny. Picture Mark Twain's head on Ichabod Crane's body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it. ”

That we have altered the dog genetically is well understood; it is hardly known how they changed us. ”