All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Hunger is good discipline.

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

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.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.