“Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.”
“As Antigone said, I am neither a dweller among men nor ghosts.”
“He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo”
“Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.”
“Suddenly she was all too aware how different she was. A woman among all these man. A natural from a humble background among rich young men chosen from powerful families. A beginner among the well trained.”
“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”