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.

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

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.

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.

Life is a bliss only if you carefully understand it.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

Art has to be reflective of our society.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others.

Jesus loves the world, as do I.

There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.