The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writ...ers have had it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So I begin to understand why my mother's radar is so sensitive to criticism. She still treads the well-worn ruts of her youth, whe...n her impression of mother was of a woman hard to please, frequently negative, and rarely satisfied with anyone--least of all herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you really want to know who I think started the war?... Who would ever have believed that human beings would be stupid enough t...o blow themselves off the face of the earth?... The trouble with you is you want a simple answer and there isn't any. The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle that peace could be maintained by arranging to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly use without committing suicide. Everybody had an atomic bomb and counter-bombs and counter- counter-bombs. The devices outgrew us, we couldn't control them. I know. I helped build them, God help me. Some poor bloke probably looked at a radar screen and thought he saw something, knew that if he hesitated one thousandth of a second his own country would be wiped off the map, so, so he pushed a button. And, and the world went crazy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »