He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

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

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.