Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.
Nelson AlgrenLiterature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Nelson AlgrenThe hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Nelson Algren