Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.