[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.

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

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

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

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.

The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.