The writer is the enemy of all dictatorships, whether of the left or of the right.

最好的故事是那些让你感觉活着的故事。

You can't control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.

The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.

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.

人生は、自分で思っているよりずっと複雑で、ずっと単純だ。