Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.