"In any other job in the world, if you wasted all your time fucking around and didn’t get any work done, you’d get fir…"

"I’ve realized over the years that, with rare exceptions, most writer’s block isn’t writer’s block at all: It’s necess…"

"The imagination only becomes becalmed if and when your tale has sailed you into lifeless waters, and you are too stub…"

"Whether or not the artistic quality of the bullfight outweighs the moral question of the animals’ suffering is someth…"

"There is an image I will never lose, much as I wish I could. It is of a man standing with half his face held in his r…"

"The crowd are on their feet, stamping and cheering, but El Cid just stands and stares at the bull in grave silence, h…"

"What you are interested in is the art whereby a man using no tricks reduces a raging bull to his dimensions, and this…"

"At the first bullfight I ever went to I expected to be horrified and perhaps sickened by what I had been told would h…"

"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the p…"

"The Roman public's thirst for blood and pleasure in witnessing pain seems to have been unquenchable and without limit…"