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I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
