I am the penny whistle of American literature.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Your thoughts define your life.

Where's Simon?" Clary interrupted.Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat, " she said darkly.Did he do something to you?" Alec was full of brotherly concern. "Did he touch you? If he tried anyt

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

I've done a few old-style romantic leads now.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

If I get to the point where I don't like my clothes, I'm in big trouble.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !