Writing Novels Is An Essentially Amateur Activity.

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, Where Year After Year, Decade After Decade, They Do The Same, Rather Simple Thing - Run In Races And Try To Win.

All Equestrians, If They Last Long Enough, Learn That Riding In Whatever Form Is A Lifelong Sport And Art, An Endeavor That Is Both Familiar And New Every Time You Take The Horse Out Of His Stall Or Pasture.

A Novelist Is On The Cusp Between Someone Who Knows Everything And Someone Who Knows Nothing.

I Readily Admit It Is Easy To Make Of Horses What We Will. Silent, In Some Ways Reserved, They Allow Us To Train Them, And To Project Our Ideas Upon Them; To Ride And Drive Them, And To Make Them Symbolic, Perhaps To A Greater Degree Than Any Other Species.

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 Unprecedented In The History Of The World.