If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. And yet you don't teach me to read, and you don't give me… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Man's closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog. "Enzo" I admire the female sex.… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“There is no dishonor in losing the race, Don said. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. ~p 227” — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“This is what I love to do: I love to run through a field of wet grass that has not been mowed recently, I love to run, keeping my snout low to the ground so the grass and the sparkles of water cover my face. I imagine myself as a vacuum cleaner, sucking in all the smells. all the life,… — Garth Stein Copy Share
There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with my small, dexterous tongue. I will shake hands with other men, grasping firmly with my opposable thumbs. And I will teach all people that I know. And when I see a man or a woman or a child… — Garth Stein Copy Share
My soul has learned what it came to learn, and all the other things are just things. We can't have everything we want. Sometimes,… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“What I have always liked best is when he talks about having no memory. No memory of things he'd done just a second before. Good or bad. Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember. Which is why… — Garth Stein Copy Share
“Know who is driving next to you. Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
