Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

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

There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.

We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.

I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.

The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?