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.

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.

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.

It's simple. You enrich your life when you enrich the lives of others.

If you’ll trust me, I’ll give you a week you’ll never forget.

If liberty is abused, get ready for an awkward result

155Sometimes I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment but it’s never after accomplishing something.

With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers.

There have been some gains made in terms of more equality for women in the workplace and in the way the legal system deals with issues of violence against women.

When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?

While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world... what makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.

I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.

As a model, you're so used to taking your clothes off that you just don't care.