When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
We wait always for something that does not come.
The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.
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.
Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.
There are worse places to be than on your own.
Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.
Everybody has something wrong with them.
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead.
Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn’t really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.
Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.
It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.