I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

A bottle of wine was good company.

Hunger is good discipline.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.