“You’re scaring the dog,” Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in prisoner of war camps, I’ve heard. Depersonalization.” — 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
