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

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.