Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

Yeah? You want to do some other worldly hanky panky? She laughed and almost fell off the couch. "Hanky Panky?" "Don't knock it till you try it

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

No fashion is ever a success unless it is used as a form of seduction.

The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.

In America, we have a divided nation. We have a very divided nation.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for 10 more years.

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.