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.
How little we know of what there is to know.
I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn’t any woman and there isn’t any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.
A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.