Occupation: Jockey Birth: October 31, 1920 Death: February 14, 2010
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them..
Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted..
Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time.
Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been..
Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and ….
I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more co….
A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it..
Good manners are a sign of strength..
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you..
People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone..
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is th….
But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you a….
Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that f….
Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer..
I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough ….
Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greate….
Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, ….
The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin..
I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her some….
THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would ….
Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision..