I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel. This book harkens the arrival of a major new voice.

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.