If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?