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

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.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

I don't have Steve. There is no having the Steve.

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

As far as I know, my husband never had a baby.

It's exciting to think that something I'm involved in is touching so many people in so many cultures.

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.