Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

What you conquer in your soul you conquer in your world.

anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?

I think Pro Tools is pretty analogous to how people composed music on tape back in the 70s, taking little fragments of things and saying, 'How can we organize these in a sensible way'?

I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets.

Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.

Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.

The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world.

I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.