There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.