There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

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 shortest answer is doing the thing.

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.