Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.

Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!

THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.

It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.