I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.