Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

Everyone needs money. That's why they call it money

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.

In Chicago, we love our crooks!