No ride is ever the last one. No horse is ever the last one you will have. Somehow there will always be other horses, other places to ride them.

Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow.

Come to the stable. Come to where the horses are, and the sweet, grainy, pungent smells.

Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.

Don't you see Blaynie." Mitch put his arm around her shoulders. "You're like an illegitimate little sister that I never wanted.

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

Even before the election I was saying that the rhetoric used by Trump was going to cause violence before and after the election. That was easy to predict.

We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.

I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

Our mission on earth is to recognize the void - inside and outside of us - and fill it.

If I heard there was a new show, and the creators were writing about how they met, I would be like, "Pass!"

I always say we got 700 pounds of pork up front. They're going to hold guys down and allow us linebackers to make a lot of plays. Even in practice. I'm loving it, man.

There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project.