Events are less important than our responses to 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.

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.

At first, the wings weighed more than the chains, because with the chains we were not required to fly

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

You can't do anything about them.

You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving. - Macey

All I care about is money and the city that I'm from.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.