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

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.