“I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?”

“But, you say, there is very little conversation in this book. Why isn't there more dialoge? What we want in a book by this citizen is people talking; that is all he knows how to do and now he doesn't do it. The fellow is no philosopher, no savant, an incompetent zoologist, he drinks too much and cannot punctuate readily and now he has stopped writing dialogue. Some one ought to put a stop to him. He is bull crazy.”

“I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.”

“Pamplona is changed, of course, but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink that it got very much the same as it always was.”

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”

“We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.”

“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.”