People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.

I am! I have come through! I belong!

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.

Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.