The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full p…

- Marjorie Garber

Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at b…

- Marjorie Garber

They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both power…

- Marjorie Garber

A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in …

- Marjorie Garber

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinki…

- Marjorie Garber

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of c…

- Marjorie Garber

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

- Marjorie Garber

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

- Marjorie Garber

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by it…

- Marjorie Garber