At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're all standing at the edge of the shaft.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're going to commit your life or you're going to walk away.

In Detroit, we all talked the race game. It is a way of life.

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

God will hear your cry even when your voice can't shout out loud unto him. He will see your tears even when can no longer shed any.

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In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea.

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

At midnight tears Run into your ears.

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.