I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.
“And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.”
“For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.”