"I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
— David Carr

"The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail to notice the sparkle of the place, a scale and a kind of wonder that puts all human endeavors in their proper place."
— David Carr (The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.)

"Coming from Minnesota, a land of white people who eat white food in a frequently white landscape, Chocolate City, with its black middle class, political leadership, and cultural legacy was a complete mystery to me.
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— David Carr (The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.)