J. Robert Oppenheimer

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.