When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.