Your blood coagulates beautifully.

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

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.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.