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Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits at the Chicago Board of Trade, Disney World, or oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.

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.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.