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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.