Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

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

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.