Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
“The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.”
“We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.”