It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvaged the souls of the people who have brought the atomic bomb.

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.