The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.