As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.

Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.

Go through life with your eyes wide open and do not react to failures with a burst of negative emotions

As far as I’m concerned, story is everything. It is why we get up in the morning and how we choose who to take to bed at night. Story is the thread that weaves together the very fabric of reality.

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

Many women feel it is natural to consult with their partners at every turn, while many men automatically make more decisions without consulting their partners.

The U.S. has dominated and continues to dominate the society and thus products and brands activating fear - and subsequently removing fear are selling substantially better than in other countries.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.