The best characters are the ones who stay with you long after the book is closed.

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.

实现不可能的唯一途径是相信它是可能的。

Desire is not a thing to be understood. It is a thing to be endured.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.