All things truly wicked start from innocence.

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.