I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

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.

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

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him, or he will destroy you. As soon as you start riding horses seriously, you're being disciplined on a daily basis about how ignorant you are and what there is left for you to learn.

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.