“I adore the work. It’s very comforting…Books are things that keep us going. Books—I haven’t got much feeling about many other things. I adore the work.” – Donna Murray to Studs Terkel, ‘Working’

“Drink a beer, read a book…I read on a weekend…during the weekdays, gee…don’t do that much reading from Monday through Friday. Unless it’s a horny book” – Mike Lefevre to Studs Terkel, ‘Working’

“Were it not God’s plan for His Chosen People in the Americas, the discovery of the consecrated land now known as Vine might be referred to as an accident” – the first line of ‘Vine’

“We really love each other. We are the best of friends.” – Tom DeLonge, banter between songs, ‘The Mark Tom and Travis Show’

“Amplifying things, good or bad, was what Chicago did best” – Abbot Kahler, ‘Sin In The Second City’

“Unsupervised reading is a blessing for certain kind of child” – Victor LaValle, ‘The Changeling’

“A bad fairy tale has some simple goddamn moral. A great fairy tale tells the truth.” – Victor LaValle, ‘The Changeling’

“It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation” – Gabriel García Márquez, ‘100 Years of Solitude’

“Yes, reader—the best hot dog in Chicago is prepared by a father-daughter team with less than a year in the business. I think that’s a beautiful thing.” – Jamie Loftus, ‘Raw Dog’

“He looked…found her only in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude. He would spend whole hours…listening to the music…” – Gabriel García Márquez, ‘100 Years of Solitude’