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.'

I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure would be, I don't know, taking gratification in some stranger's ghastly death or something - which I guess I do enjoy, because I read a ton of true crime.

When you see someone putting themselves out there, particularly when you see someone is failing and failing so passionately, it brings up this bittersweet connection to our mortality.

We will change things if people stand up for what they believe in against injustice and death to save themselves and the future of America - and the world.

I am dying to be a world champion, a single's world champion.