And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.

故事是我们教孩子如何以勇气和善意去探索世界的方式。

——《大总统复参议会论国旗函》，1912年2月3日

"A good detective listens to the silence as much as the noise."

The novel is the most complete and profound expression of human liberty.