历史学家是一个向后看的先知。

每一代人都需要一场新的革命。

Literature should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.

I play every point like it's match point.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

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.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

真正的天堂是我们已经失去的天堂。