Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.