Quotes by : Nelson Algren

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Well, I may get drunk," the Widow admitted, "but I don't stagger. Sometimes I fall down. But I don't....

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love....

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,....

I bet you think fellas are the ones to remember a girl -- don't you?"He shook his head hurriedly, that....

The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws....

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

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