I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.