I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.