My Dog Skip

„In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.”

„Why in childhood and youth do we wish time to pass so quickly – we want to grow up so fast – yet as adults we wish just the opposite?”

„I almost lost old Skip that day. Even as he was sleeping on the operating table, he was still teaching me. That day, I became a young man. Why, in childhood and youth, we wish time to pass so quickly. We want to grow up so fast. Yet, as adults, we wish just the opposite.”

„Old Skip was 11, and feeble with arthritis, but he never lost that old devilish look in his eye. He made my room his own. Came across an old photo of him not long ago. His little face, with the long snout sniffing at something in the air. His tail was straight out and pointing. Eyes were flashing in some momentary excitement. He always loved to be rubbed on the back of his neck. And when I did it, he’d yawn, and he’d stretch, reach out to me with his paws as if he was trying to embrace me. I recieved a trans-atlantic call one day. „Skip died”, Daddy said. He and my mama wrapped him him my baseball jacket. They buried him out under the elm tree, they said. That wasn’t totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.”

(My Dog Skip)

The Hammer

„You guys sure seem to love Nicaragua except for the part where you risked your lives not to live there any more.”

„Look at these kids, they look pissed off cuz this weren’t Disneyland. I would’ve sue my parents if they took me here.”

„Jerry! Jerry! Wake up, man! You missing the tryouts, man!  I’ll do the Olympics next time… ”

(The Hammer)

Point Break

„It’s basic dog psychology, if you scare them and get them peeing down their leg, they submit. But if you project weakness, that promotes violence, and that’s how people get hurt.”

„90 seconds Johnny. That’s all I ask for, just 90 seconds of your life Johnny, that’s it. This is our tatic, is we strike fear. Once you get them peeing down ther leg, they submit. Also about fear, fear causes hasitation, and hesitation, causes your worst fears to come true.”

„The beaches are always being closed because of waste spills, right? And surfers are territorial, they stick to certain breaks. If we can get some hair samples, and get a match to a certain beach, we’d know which break the Ex-Presidents surf. You buyin’ this?”

(Point Break)