No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after all the cape work when the bull tries to kill something that isn't there? Remember how he gets confused and uneasy, sometimes just stands and looks for an answer? Well, then they have to give him a horse or his heart will break. He has to get his horns into something solid or his spirit dies. Well, I'm that horse. And that's the kind of men I get, confused and puzzled. If they can get a horn into me, that's a little triumph.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of firearms, that profound and almost instinctive tradition of Americans. Luckily for us, our tradition of bearing arms has not gone from the country, the tradition is so deep and so dear to us that it is one of the most treasured parts of the Bill of Rights - the right of all Americans to bear arms, with the implication that they will know how to use them.