Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

In every passerby, everywhere - Christ . . . He is in everyone - there can be no outcasts.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

I've dabbled in several different religions.

You go see 'Timothy Green,' and tell me if it doesn't rock your world. I loved it. I loved every frame of it.

It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.

We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.