When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were impostors, as farmers and as fathers, too. In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories. To really believe that others even existed in either category was to break the First Commandment.

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

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.

Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific.

Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

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