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 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.

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.

Try looking at life as a beautifully well-organized dynamic.

God told me once, 'I want you to come up to the lowest place.'

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

You are made of Love, and this Earth is rich with opportunities to Love. Love is all around you.

Although to be fair, cherry picking isn't quite what we do. Cherries are sweet and delicious. What we do is more turd mining. And I'll thank you to give our work the respect it deserves!

Go to find common ground; where you can't, you stand your ground.

I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family.