You're beautiful, like a May fly.

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

Never mistake motion for action.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.