A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

I wonder how one can hate to love and love to hate the same person over a period of time in a relationship

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

I don't tend to like race jokes. I don't like Jew jokes and black jokes, and they make me very uncomfortable, probably because I'm both. Well, I'm not black - but if I was then I could dance better.

Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner.

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

Yo, you don't think you're going under? I got a bullet with your name, your address, and your phone number.

So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

On a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life.