The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Less is more only when more is too much.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy.