“Speak your mind, but ride a very fast horse!!”

“I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.”

“The high shelfWhere you stacked the bad thing, hoping for calm,Broke. It rolled down. It follows you to the end.”

“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride”

“At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You can't make a race horse of a pig." Samuel replies, "No, but you can make a very fast pig.”

“In this dirty-minded world you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore, or fast on your way to becoming one or the other.”

“Never mind the horse's blind, just load the wagon.”