Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.