“I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is th...” — Carl Sandburg Quote

“I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.”

“We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.”

“There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.”

“I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.”

“Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.”

“I never read too many comic books when I was growing up, but I think everyone loved Wolverine, you know what I'm saying?”