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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.

When you hear that howl alone at night in the forest, it's one of the most frightening sounds you'll ever hear.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.