Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.

I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.