Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.