Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.

Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them.

I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.

Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did achieve.

Or maybe I, like, cuddle raped him or something.

Avoid a wasteful life and make each unit of time count

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all.

Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.

Screw reality. It don’t feed my dog. It don’t make my Porsche payments. It don’t get me laid. Bullshit does that…and I like it that way. (Leo)

Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.