What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

For over 20 years, I have been saying that Chicago is by far one of the greatest food cities in the world.

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time. I wish I'd read that book by Faulkner.' I want time to delve back into Thoreau and Kafka.

Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.