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

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.

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.

Forgive yourself, but don't forget

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

When it comes to your marriage, if the grass looks greener somewhere else, it's time to water your own yard!

I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little.

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to per­severance.

You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.