Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

A bottle of wine was good company.