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

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.