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 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.

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

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.

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.