"I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan."

"All my life, I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific."

"I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself."

"But it was drama, high drama: fires at night, the fires that burned people's houses away; bombs fell and left exotically shaped fragments in the form of shrapnel. And we collected it and traded it. As…"

"Have you noticed how over recent decades, our expectations of the future have gradually shifted? How maybe we used to quietly assume that life for the next generation would be better than ours, and no…"