Quote #12

'Some things just don't make sense anymore: if society pays a young songwriter royalties on a single creation until the day he dies, then why not pay a fireman equivalent royalties in perpetuity for his own 'act of art,' namely the extinguishment of a single, major fire in which many lives are saved?' ~ on resurrecting neglected heroes

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