The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.