Events Are Less Important Than Our Responses

The Third Stage Was The Reaction That Came When The Body Struggled To Compensate For Its Ills - When, For Instance, The White Count Not Only Returned To Normal But Increased To Much Higher Than Normal Levels.

The Final Test Of A Work Of Art Is Not Whether It Has Beauty, But Whether It Has Power.

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.

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.

When The Writing Is Really Working, I Think There Is Something Like Dreaming Going On. I Don't Know How To Draw The Line Between The Conscious Management Of What You're Doing And This State. . . . I Would Say That It's Related To Daydreaming. When I Feel Really Engaged With A Passage, I Become So Lost In It That I'm Unaware Of My Real Surroundings, Totally Involved In The Pictures And Sounds That That Passage Evokes.