When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country。 I make up for lost time when I come home.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
The writer’s duty is to be a troublemaker, a disturber of the peace.
Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.