I was a bullfighter. I'd like to see the tradition continue. I'm sorry that Catalonia is robbing itself of a tradition that belongs in Catalonia.

It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.

I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my technique in killing, gives me satisfaction.

You kill, it's part of your world as a bullfighter, it's a natural part of your world, and then you leave that world and it becomes unnatural.

Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.

Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

If you fear something, walk into it.

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull.

A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook.

Water is such a lifesaver into which we cannot breathe but without taking it into us we cannot live

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I know, ” he said, very softly. “Let’s go home. Let’s go home, and you can tell me whatever you want, and I’ll believe you.

And a funeral, I found out, is like a wedding in reverse, with less time to plan.

There are strangers, people we don't know, who care about is.

If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart.

See yourself and others through the eyes of an angel and you will see a beautiful world that is light, bright, and hopeful.

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.