The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.

The day your heart fills only with fear and insecurities, everything you see becomes the ghost that you were always scared of.

I can't talk, or I will throw up!

We’re pieces on a chessboard and we make our moves when it’s our turn. If we don’t, our decisions are made for us.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another book.

One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

Fifteen states across the country have gas prices that have dipped below $2. That means it's now cheaper to buy a gallon of liquefied dinosaurs than one cup of coffee at Starbucks.

Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.