The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'.

Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.