Not the why but the what.

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

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.