“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.”
“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
“An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.”
“Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada? Chicago, though, is the Big Daddy. Not more corrupt, just more theatrical, more colorful in its shadiness.”
“I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don’t count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages”
“If she'd been lame or a hunchback I'd have probably fallen in love with her even more... Yes, it was a sort of spring fever.”