Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

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

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.

One of the best things Henry Miller ever said was that art goes all out. It's all out. It goes full length. . . . A big book is an all-out book in which you limit your life to things that pertain directly to the book.

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.