Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

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

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

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.

We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.

Come to the stable. Come to where the horses are, and the sweet, grainy, pungent smells.