Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.