“Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.”

Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.

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.

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

I can never turn my back on a city that made me.

A beautiful city with incredible people. My thoughts are with you, Berlin.

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

For my city, for my family, for my friends, n for myself, all praises to God.

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

Don’t let the wicked city get you down.

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.