Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

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.

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

Courage is grace under pressure.