It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.

You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.