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

- Erik Larson

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

- Erik Larson

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

- Erik Larson

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

- Erik Larson

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

- Erik Larson

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

- Erik Larson

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

- Erik Larson

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

- Erik Larson

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…

- Erik Larson