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

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.

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.

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

She did not realise that there could be a joy - a spiritual ecstasy- in the touch of a certain man, or that she would long for his touch with all her being

Life for my child is simple, and is good.

Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.

In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher!

All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.