The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

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

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

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.

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.