And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

The 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.

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.

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