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" Even having all the time in the world, it's better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It's ultimately the richest experience. "

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" I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone. When you realize that's not so, the proper humility is to defer. "

" The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating. "

" Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time. "

" My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back. "

" It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't. "

" When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western. "

" The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in that there are things that I want to make sure my family is protected when I pass. "

" I am kind of an undecipherable commodity to a lot of people, including myself. "

" Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day. "

" Most races are claiming races. For the lower-caliber horses, it's a way the track has of forcing people to run their horses at approximately the price at which they would not mind having the horse bought. "

" To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process. "

" It may be, for one reason or another, if I'm not able to work, that would be a cause for distress. But I'm still pitching. Thank God, I'm still in possession of my gift. And I have the love of my family. "

" I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of categories or questions is really none of my business. "

" A syndicate is a group that has gotten together to pool their money so they can cover more contingencies. If I come to track with, say, $200, and I join a syndicate of 20 people, each of whom can bet $200, we can spread our bets, and that gives us a better chance of winning. "

" Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects. That he is able to specify among those and bring those themes alive is one of his great gifts. There are so many different kinds of pleasures one gets from encountering those materials. "

" When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that. "

" Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?' "

" Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life. "

" Your fundamental responsibility is to stay true to the deepest nature and intention of the materials. "

" If you have a horse that can beat horses worth $20,000, typically you enter it in a $20,000 claiming race. Now there might be people who feel their horse is worth $20,000, and they say, 'I wouldn't mind seeing the horse get beat.' So they'll enter it for $40,000 so the horse looks like it's performed badly. "

" I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand. "

" The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s and '30s, and it has really nothing to do with the West and much to do with the influence of middle-European Jews who had come out to Hollywood to present to America a sanitized heroic idea of what America was. "

" I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry. "

" Every man's entitled to hope. "

" What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract. "

" In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for seven or eight years. In the course of that work, my interest in Faulkner deepened and has been sustained ever since. "

" As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working. "