Worry destroys the ability to write.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

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

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

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

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey