That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.