And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.

So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

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

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

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