Claire Colburn The survivor tree.Its my favorite of all trees. Claire Colburn We are intrepid. We carry on. Drew Baylor As somebody once said there's a difference between a failure and a fiasco. A failure is simply the non-presence of success. Any fool can accomplish failure. But a fiasco...A fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. A fiasco is a folktale told to others that makes other people feel more alive because it didn't happened to them.