... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

And never, ever, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

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

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.