We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.