For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Ralph W. Sockman

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Stephen Hawking

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

Adam Clymer

The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.

Jeff Miller

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

Louis Ferdinand Celine

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Henri Bergson

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from teh fact that her little bed was very white.

Victor Hugo

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

Michael Lewis

...I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely...

John Geddes

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Henry Fielding

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

Beauty least adorned is most adorned

John Lancaster Spalding