Journalism allows it's readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. The main symptom was falling hair. Diarrhoea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

Events are less important than our responses to them.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

I got it wrong – I was singing for myself when I should have been singing for you all. - Burt

Clear your mind and you will be filled by the Love of the Oneness.

Don't sit around depressed and discouraged. Get a new vision for your life.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

If your gonna drop out of school / tough grades are not your goal / then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.