Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.

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

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