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.

Live it up so you can write it down.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

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.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.