Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.