Quotes by : Caroline Knapp

Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as....

The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something,....

Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans--the ability to make you feel valued just by being you--and....

The great anxious focus on the minutiae of appetite—on calories and portion size and what's going into....

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting....

So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this....

One thing I've noticed since I quit drinking is that a person usually has two or three sets of impulses....

...lack of leadership can have fearsome consequences. A dog's mental health, after all, depends to a....

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet....