My father had gone to Vietnam.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.