"I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week"

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer"

"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago"

"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"

"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come"

"I live and die with the Chicago Cubs"

"I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming"

"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"

"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession"

"I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means"

"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer"