Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

A cat has absolute honesty.

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.