You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.
I have the necessary lack of tact.
To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.
It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.
And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.