The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

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

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.