Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of de….

The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent..

I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago styl….

Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is..

I get criticized for anything I do..

[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera des….

Your life isn't out of control. It's expanded..

Stand by those who stand by you..

I am a rank individualist..

I learned so much from Tony Danza I learned so much about myself..

No one can be Rihanna, except for Rihanna.

All of us are better when we're loved..

When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and….

Celebrity is something I've never been into, and never will be..

I have not been a success, and probably never will be..

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in..

The Houston Contractors Association is proud to endorse Council Member Oliver Pennington for re-election to Houston City Council. Council Member Penn….

I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York.….

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life..

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inne….

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate read….