Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
The true religion of America has always been America.
When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.