I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote