We are all prisoners of our own memories.

韩寒：“中国文学没有起色的很大原因是有这些做事说话极其不负责任但又装出一副很诲人不倦的样子的人长期占据文学评论的权威位置。”

"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."

We are all prisoners of our own stories, but we can choose how to tell them.