Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

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

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

When I put the plate down, you don't hear a sound. When I pick up a glass, I want it to be just right. When someone says, "How come you're just a waitress?" I say, "Don't you think you deserve being served by me?"

If we're to have a future in the 21st century, we'll want to be able to say, "Now what was the 20th century like in the United States of America, the most powerful of all countries of that century? What was it like to be an ordinary person?"

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.