Tim O'BrienThinkers

Courage is varied. Moral courage is harder than physical courage.

Same-sex marriage is not without vast implications for what is taught in our schools and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society.

A Story is tasked not with explanation of the world we live in (as are science and math), but rather with enhancing the mysteries.

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

The Word is such that words, too, have genuine substance ' mass and weight and specific gravity.