“I am no heroic figure, but a man like any other, capable of selfish and selfless at once, of light and dark,… — Brian Doyle Courage Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder if he was not very consciously and deliberately choosing particular chapters of his life to tell, in order… — Brian Doyle Nature Copy Share Image
“Schaumburg was a town north and west of Chicago, and Mr Mahoney liked to say that he had been there once, to… — Brian Doyle Copy Share Image
“He is only one of a million no, a billion stories you could tell about the living beings on just this side… — Brian Doyle Delighted Copy Share Image
“One thing I remember with amazement about Chicago is that everyone knew everything before it was splayed lurid and naked in public;… — Brian Doyle Chicago Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid I thought that the biggest moments in life would be trumpeted and highlighted and italicized somehow, that… — Brian Doyle Death Copy Share Image
“You cannot edit your life, and even if I was today offered the chance to never meet her, and so not leave… — Brian Doyle Life Copy Share Image
“So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment.… — Brian Doyle Children Copy Share Image
“...you could see the man being formed, and kew the man to be your good and true friend, as long as life… — Brian Doyle Friendship Copy Share Image
“Everyone thinks that the old days were better, or that they were harder, and the modern times are chaotic and complex, or… — Brian Doyle Brian-doyle Copy Share Image
“Our hearts are not pure: our hearts are filled with need and greed as much as with love and grace, and we… — Brian Doyle Love Copy Share Image
“...your twenties are the years when a man wends and wanders, searching for who knows what - we say money or love… — Brian Doyle Adventure Copy Share Image
“The coolest most amazing people I have met in my life, I said, are the ones who are not very interested in… — Brian Doyle Amazing people Copy Share Image
“For some years a fishing boat bringing in regular catches, occasional permits filed for charter fishing, one permit filed for whale-watching cruise,… — Brian Doyle Three years Copy Share Image
“They were loath to leave, for they felt, understandably enough, and rightly, I think, that as soon as they left their place,… — Brian Doyle Sense of place Copy Share Image
“When young we think there will come one person who will savor and sustain us always; when we are older we know… — Brian Doyle Brian-doyle Copy Share Image
“Think of Chicago as a piece of music, perhaps,” he continued. “In it you can hear the thousands of years of people… — Brian Doyle Around the world Copy Share Image
“Yet this city (San Francisco) was also a final refuge for many who had roamed the world, and finally found the home… — Brian Doyle Freedom Copy Share Image
“A most remarkable man; the sort of man I wish to be , of whom it might someday be said, that he… — Brian Doyle Art Copy Share Image
“So that Chicago, with shipping and steel and livestock, came to think of itself as a burly city, tough and muscular, with… — Brian Doyle Chicago Copy Share Image
“Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the… — Brian Doyle Stories Copy Share Image
“What is Chicagoness? What is the city made of? Why is it different from any other city? What are the things that… — Brian Doyle Chicago Copy Share Image
“We do not acknowledge enough, I think, the clan and tribe of our friends, who are not assigned to us by blood,… — Brian Doyle Brother and sister Copy Share Image
