To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.