Learning Starts With Failure; The First Failure

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.

Events Are Less Important Than Our Responses To Them.

To Be A Writer Is To Sit Down At One's Desk In The Chill Portion Of Every Day, And To Write; Not Waiting For The Little Jet Of The Blue Flame Of Genius To Start From The Breastbone - Just Plain Going At It, In Pain And Delight. 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 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?