The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

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 reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

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.

Fortunes mean nothing without knowing the lives they forever changed.

Curiosity can only be called "fear of the unknown" only when you are in your comfort zone.

Plant a seed of friendship reap a bouquet of happiness.

Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.

If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts.

To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me.

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.