"Forgive me. I'm not making much sense. Let me start properly, in order."

"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: "At least I galloped — when did you?""

"Worship all you can see, and more will appear."

"All right! The normal is the good smile in a child's eyes. There's also the dead stare in a million adults. It both s…"

"Know that, when Equus leaves — if he leaves at all — it will be with your intestines in his teeth — and I don't stock…"

"Alright, I take it away, what then? He'd feel himself acceptable, what then? Do you think feelings like his can be si…"

"Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. You won't gallop anymore, Alan, the horses will…"

"Why me? Why me? First, account for me."

"How can I? In an ultimate sense, I cannot know what I do in this place, but I do ultimate things, irreversible things…"

"The thing is, I'm wearing that horse's head myself, all reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to j…"