Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

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.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

You're beautiful, like a May fly.