She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.