To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died in silence, with no grudge, setting their teeth to bear it. All for the country!

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

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

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

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.

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.