I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.