 Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. |
| Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. |
| The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. |
| Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. |
| I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday. |
| 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. |
| Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. |
