There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.

The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what? Nothing is more ephemeral than a hot topic.

Blood is really warm, it's like drinking hot chocolatebut with more screaming.

Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.

I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism.

I think that people have great anger over what happened in 2008 in terms of the economy.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

Wow, I did so much for young black girls and girls around the world.