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.

作家的职责不是回答问题，而是提出问题。

我们看起来似乎痛苦的试炼，往往是伪装起来的好运。

海洋给予我们如此之多，现在是我们通过负责任的做法回馈的时候了。