I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a….

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty..

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thi….

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom..

Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unpreceden….

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others..

People are quite frequently eccentric..

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together..

There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, wh….

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understanda….

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects..

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting fi….

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we w….

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relev….

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones..

After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire a….

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel..

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life..

I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning to drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only….

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in….