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.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.