"Every city is a living body...." - Quote by Saint Augustine

“Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.”

“The measure of love is to love without measuring.”

“Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?”

“[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.”

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

“Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.”

“Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.”

“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”

“Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.”