Quotations

"One does not re-light a dead cigarette."

— Anna Held, Polish-American actress, born 1872

"Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that."

— Erich Heller, British essayist, born 1911

"Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck."

— Joseph Heller, American author, born 1923

"Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all."

— Joseph Heller, American author, born 1923

"There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it, like the bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat it."

— Linda Hellman, American therapist

"My big fish must be somewhere."

— Ernest Hemingway, American author, born 1899

"Now is the time to think of only one thing. That which I was born for."

— Ernest Hemingway, American author, born 1899

"After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love."

— Ernest Hemingway, American author, born 1899

"Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so."

— Ernest Hemingway, American author, born 1899

"Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, with that feeling, blind him, and blind yourself. Then, one day, for no reason, he sees you as ugly as you really are and he is not blind anymore and then you see yourself as ugly as he sees you and you lose your man and your feeling...
After a while, when you are as ugly as I am, as ugly as women can be, then, as I say after a while the feeling, the idiotic feeling that you are beautiful, grows slowly in one again. It grows like a cabbage. And then, when the feeling is grown, another man sees you and thinks you are beautiful and it is all to do over."

— Ernest Hemingway, American author, born 1899

"I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience."

— Mariel Hemingway, American actress, born 1961

"One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough."

— Gay Hendricks, American psychologist, born 1945

"Music is my religion."

— Jimi Hendrix, American musician, born 1942

"Excuse me while I kiss the sky."

— Jimi Hendrix, American musician, born 1942