Quotes by : Nelson Algren

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.

    "You ever been arrested before?"    "No sir. This is my first time."    "The first time....

I am the penny whistle of American literature.

You can't be a good writer in the States anymore because to be a good one you have to have a country....

She was neither widow nor mother: she only yearned for the dignity of a woman who had once belonged,....

It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against....

That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute....

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed,....

But nothing was said about chicken farming anymore. Once, long after it was too late for farming, he....