"Though tragedy was in the process of becoming unreal and meaningless it seemed one was still permitted to remember th…"

"There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of th…"

"The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later whi…"

"What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?"

"For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts."

"How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him."

"But my lord, Yvonne, surely you know by this time I can’t get drunk however much I drink."

"Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass."

"The will of man is unconquerable. Even God cannot conquer it."

"No se puede vivir sin amar."