he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

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

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

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.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.