Carl Sandburg

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.