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'r…

- Charlie Leduff

New York is a glamorous city, constituted mostly of nobodies. They crave the lights, and if they tell you differently, they're lying. Only dreamers c…

- Charlie Leduff

There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the …

- Charlie Leduff

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

- Charlie Leduff

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

- Charlie Leduff

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.

- Charlie Leduff

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 e…

- Charlie Leduff

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

- Charlie Leduff

What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who would pull out …

- Charlie Leduff