Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

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

You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.