I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

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

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.