"I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause."

“Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it in the same way twice.”

“You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.”

“Some things we must pass over in silence.”

Source : Greg Iles (2006). “Turning Angel: A Novel”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

“The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying to walk in two directions at the same time.”

“If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.”

“I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'”

“(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.”

Source : Nelson Algren (2011). “The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition”, p.369, Seven Stories Press

“Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.”