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 novel is the most powerful tool for understanding the Other.

总是提前计划。诺亚建方舟时并没有下雨。

译文：自由自在行走时，感受不到时光流逝，所到之处，都有蓑衣相伴，充满别样乐趣。