I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.