They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

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

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

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.

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