Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.

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

You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.