[The hunter] is not at all like the animals he is after, fixed by heavy routines and predictable quirks; he is free, fluid, unpredictable. (Ixtlan, 100)

All of us behave like the prey we are after. That, of course, makes us prey for something or someone else. Now, the concern of the hunter, who knows all this, is to stop being prey himself.
It takes time… you can begin by not eating lunch everyday at twelve o’clock.
There are certain animals, however, that are impossible to track…they have no routines, that’s what makes them magical. (Ixtlan, 101)

A hunter must not only know the habits of his prey, he also must know that there are powers on this earth that guide men and animals and everything that is living.
Powers the guide our lives and our deaths. (Ixtlan, 106)

How can one stalk one’s weaknesses, Gorda? You figure out your routines until you know all the doings of your weaknesses and then you come upon them and pick them up like rabbits inside a cage. (Ring, 228)