Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

Alcohol, contrary to instinct, is not the secret to happiness.