The thrill of discovery never gets old.

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.

我总是渴望学习和进步。

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.