About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.