And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.