I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.