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

Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

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

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.