15 Quotes by Mark Spragg

I was a boy, and I believed deeply in the sightedness of horses. I believed that there was nothing that they did not witness. I believed that to have a horse between my legs, to extend my pulse and blood and energy to theirs, enhanced my vision. Made of me a seer. I believed them to be the dappled, sorrel, roan, bay, black pupils in the eyes of God.

I am fond of the sound of horses in the night. The lifting of feet. Stamping. The clicking of their iron shoes against rock. They mouth one anothers withers and rear and squeal and whirl and shuffle and cough and stand and snort. There is the combined rumblings of each individual gut. They sound larger than they are. The air tastes of horses, ripples as though come alive with their good-hearted strength and stamina.

There is no happiness like the pounding of so many horses into one. I imagine I hear the horses laugh. I think it every time. I think that running is the way a horse may laugh out loud. When I am older I will believe that following in their wake has filled me with the inconsolable joy of animals.

We know everyone here, ... We won't know anyone in New York.

When I look at the film, unlike when you see it, I'll be thinking of the scenes that were cut,

Certainly all of our lives are unfinished, ... how they must learn to forgive what they perceive as wrong in their life, whether that wrong was committed by other people or by some form of cosmology.

I think for both of us, and, hopefully, for all of us, we wonder, 'Do the dead view us? Do they forgive us our sins? Do they accept us? Do they shepherd us? ... So that aspect was in the book and the film, both.

Write a lot and read a lot and expect to give over your life completely to the passion of writing, ... I think if people are not willing to do that, they are forever doomed to be amateurs.

To have this advance screening in Cody truly means a lot to me,