I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.