I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

What is moral is what you feel good after.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.