有些人希望事情发生，有些人希望事情会发生，而其他人则让它发生。

作家要么是隐居的实践者，要么是内疚的、有过失的人。

The true measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members.

The writer must be four people: the nut, the obsessor, the stylist, and the critic.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.