Every letter was a love letter.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.