For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.
A promise unkept will take a man's mind.
Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.
Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.
What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can’t be mass marketed.
I like a funny girl. Smart. Talented. I like someone who is good at music - that always intrigues me.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.