The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

War is not won by victory.

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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