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

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.

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

There's people in hell who want ice water.

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.

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.

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