Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.