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.

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.

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

It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brot

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion

The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her but it is always impossible to live without her.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

I advise that pregnant women do not come to my concerts.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.