Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for any major group in any society are really quite rare. It's an indication that something is very wrong.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.