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

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

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

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

To cease to love -- that is defeat.

I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.

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.