What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

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