A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

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

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.