I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and Ive never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me it felt disloyal. – Robert Crais
Theres the Hollywood sign theres Griffith Observatory theres the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. Its 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet. – Robert Crais
Sometimes I am so dry that people dont know Im kidding and think Im being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny. – Robert Crais
What they smell isnt the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a persons skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores. – Robert Crais
My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it. – Maggie Stiefvater