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

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.