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

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

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.

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.