A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.