Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up..

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries..

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again..

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

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

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world.

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

Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes..

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 Chicag….

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

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics..

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own boo….

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding ….

Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, th….

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….

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwh….

Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engagi….

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

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd..

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….