There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.