Nelson Algren

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it.

Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'

I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

I don't really have time to watch too much, but I like 'Family Guy' and 'Entourage.' I'm also obsessed with the YouTube series 'Balls of Steel.' It's hilarious.