We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

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.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.