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

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.

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.

Still following the rules, huh?" He grabbed his shift off the back of the kitchen chair and pulled it on."Still breaking them?" she fired back.

Exercise to live. Never live to exercise.

If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping.

Follow your gut and your heart. You'll almost always make the right choice.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be.

Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.

Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.