You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

You'll lose it, if you talk about it

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.