The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

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

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

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 people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.