My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin.

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.