John Grogan

Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

— John Grogan

In a world of bosses, you are your own master

— John Grogan

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

— John Grogan

Cats will outsmart dogs every time.

— John Grogan

Then I dropped my forehead against his and sat there for a long time, as if I could telegraph a message through…

— John Grogan

'Marley and Me' was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have a modest…

— John Grogan

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as…

— John Grogan

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with…

— John Grogan

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best…

— John Grogan

“A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water log stick will do just fine. A…

— John Grogan

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive…

— John Grogan

If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says

— John Grogan

I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.

— John Grogan

“I had never thought of Marley as any kind of model, but sitting there sipping my beer, I was aware that maybe…

— John Grogan

“We now had three girls and one testosterone-pumped guy bird that spent every walking minute doing of of three things: pursuing sex,…

— John Grogan

Living organically is my way of feeling connected to the earth and my own humanity. It's how I feel balanced and at…

— John Grogan

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

— John Grogan

“A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbol means nothing to him. A waterlogged…

— John Grogan

“Standing out there in th dark, I felt many different things. One of them was pride in my fellow Americans, ordinary people…

— John Grogan

I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal…

— John Grogan

I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry…

— John Grogan

There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

— John Grogan

When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my…

— John Grogan

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come…

— John Grogan

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day…

— John Grogan