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I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.

Studs Terkel

Hope

Memory

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.

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Love

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

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American

Chicago

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

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Time