"Simple things, small things change lives," Prelude, p. 2.

"Some thought I still trapped and I let them think so—caught in a kind of guilt that just to be running dogs for the sake of running them was to fritter away time—but I was just going to go, and a change came with running them," Beginnings, p. 25.

"Right then I was probably one of the least qualified dog drivers on the entire planet to go up and run the Iditarod. Yes, I answered, listening to Cookie breathe in the silence of Ruthe waiting. I think I am..." Beginnings, p. 54.

"I was now in the position of going rabbit hunting sitting on a rusty 1957 Schwinn with a chrome tank and tattered handlebar tassels, being pulled through thick forest by five dogs," Dogs from Hell, p. 66.

"In subsequent runs I left the yard on my face, my...