These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is at once brilliant and brutal and clear, like white-hot metal spraying out of a fire hose, we can appreciate the aesthetic while taking the worst of it straight in the face. Men, on the other hand, are all filters and deflectors and timed release.


The Art of Racing in the Rain (ed. Harper, 2008)


These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is ...

These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is ...

These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is ...

These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is ...