I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

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

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.