I consider myself a Chicagoan. I came here to study at the Art Institute in 1951 when I was 18 years old, and I've been here ever since. I still think Chicago is the best city in the country.

It's the 'National Enquirer' for the ad people

That's the way it goes with the whole human thing - nobody wants to take a risk. But to be entertaining is not risky, everybody likes to be entertained.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

To be really successful and win a title with a great club like Liverpool would be 100% one of the greatest things I could ever imagine.

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!