For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.