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

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?

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

Nothing comes from nothing

It is the duty of a child to obey his parent.

You will always find me writing and reading as long as I have the breath of life within me.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

I want to fall into the purity that is Day, soaking in his simple honesty, his heart that sits open and beating on his sleeve.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

If you will change, things will change for you.

Tuskegee is a state of mind as it is a place, a place of possibility, hope, promise, self-empowerment, and where dreams come true.

Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both countries [Pakistan and India]. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces.

Give it all up and you can have it all.