Chicago Quotes
And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the oth...
Show MoreI am consoled only to see that I was not mistaken: Chicago is just as I remembered it. I was here tw...
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Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't ...
Show MoreChicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and th...
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Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.
New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newb...
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sp...
Show MoreChicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and tha...
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This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.
Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that ...
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Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperce...
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... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can lov...
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Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war ag...
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I bet you think fellas are the ones to remember a girl -- don't you?"He shook his head hurriedly, th...
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She was neither widow nor mother: she only yearned for the dignity of a woman who had once belonged,...
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Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They ...
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"You ever been arrested before?" "No sir. This is my first time." "The first time this wee...
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