Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.