The Art of Racing in the Rain

by Garth Stein

Here’s why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak, so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own.

This is another insightul observation Enzo brings to the story. It occured to me when I was watching Wallace and Gromit with my kids one day. In that man-and-his-dog story, Gromit, the dog, is far more intelligent than Wallace, and yet Gromit has no mouth! He is mute. Because he's a dog.