The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have enough fortitude and they probably wouldnt succeed anyway, or they fall in love with the glamour of writing as opposed to the writing of writing.

We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime! We have a problem with violence? Let's declare war on violence! The deeply ingrained American attitude that we can solve any problem w/enough force creates, feeds, & rewards the epidemic of violence we are currently experiencing.