Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

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.

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.

Though you should still let her do what she wants, don't let her take total control of you or you won't be making the most of your experience.

Devote yourself to reading of the Holy Scriptures.

Be kind to your garden and be gentle on your back!

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?

Put all your eggs in one basket. Then you're less likely to drop that basket.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil

Then shut up or grab a sword and come help. (Takeshi) Is that a challenge? (Savitar) It would be if I didn’t know for a fact that you’re too lazy to rise to one. (Takeshi)

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.