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

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.

Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.