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.
You ought to dream.
What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will alway...
To understand is to forgive.
Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his...
The Lord is my shepherdI shall not want him for longHe maketh me to lie down in green pasturesand there are no green pasturesHe leadeth me beside still watersand still waters run deep
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIOEverything is mucho simpler in a hospital, including jokes
Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
Oh Jake, Brett said, We could have had such a damned good time together.Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against m...
If you have plenty of money, want not to see but to have seen a bullfight and plan no matter whether you like it or not to leave after the first bull, buy a barrera seat so that someone who has never...
I sleep on my face, and then it does not frighten anybody in the morning.
I even read aloud the part of the novel that I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him as a writer than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter s...
I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
He spat into the ocean and said, Eat that, galanos. And make a dream you’ve killed a man.
For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obseessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself. It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.Now he would never w...
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you w...
Man is not made for defeat.