[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.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

God is what's good in me.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.