Events Are Less Important Than Our Responses

The Crux Of The Matter Is Whether Total War In Its Present Form Is Justifiable, Even When It Serves A Just Purpose. Does It Not Have Material And Spiritual Evil As Its Consequences Which Far Exceed Whatever Good Might Result? When Will Our Moralists Give Us An Answer To This Question?

The Final Test Of A Work Of Art Is Not Whether It Has Beauty, But Whether It Has Power.

Journalism Allows Its Readers To Witness History; Fiction Gives Its Readers An Opportunity To Live It.

Events Are Less Important Than Our Responses To Them.

At Exactly Fifteen Minutes Past Eight In The Morning, On August 6, 1945, Japanese Time, At The Moment When The Atomic Bomb Flashed Above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, A Clerk In The Personnel Department Of The East Asia Tin Works, Had Just Sat Down At Her Place In The Plant Office And Was Turning Her Head To Speak To The Girl At The Next Desk.