John Hersey

“Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”

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

“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.”

“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.”