One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.
. . . Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.
. . . he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.
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.
I am pro-life. I am also supportive of health savings accounts, which ensure that women have the freedom to control their own health-care decisions, among numerous other reforms - like purchasing across state lines - to give Americans more control over their own health care.
Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.
The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable.
If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology