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.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.