I'm fortunate, in that I participate in an "extracurricular" organization, in which we constantly tell each other our stories.

Most are damn interesting. People pay money, for fiction, that isn't as interesting as the stories I hear, almost daily, from the folks that lived them.

It's interesting, when someone talks about how he was shot, then pulls up his shirt, to show you the scar.

> "War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull."

- Mark Twain