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

Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

Drinking is a way of ending the day.

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.