“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”

“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.”

“Live life to the fullest.”

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”

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

“The Purdey was not a Purdey but a straight-stocked long-barreled Scott live-pigeon full choke in both barrels thai I had bought from a lot of shotguns a dealer had brought down fron Udine to the Kechlers' villa in Codroipo.”

“What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?”