In Chicago, we love our crooks!

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.