What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.