The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

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.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

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

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.