I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he saw no evidence of any such outpouring of anger.

Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world