From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.

Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.

It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

If I did not have my wife, I wouldn't be married, I wouldn't have the life that I have and I wouldn't have my wonderful baby boy who's not a baby anymore - he's going to be eight-years-old.

Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

I think all kinds of music are being made. No one hears them. There's so much emphasis on a certain kind of music. It's difficult to find music nowadays. You have to make the effort to find it.

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.