To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

人类承受不了太多的现实。

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.

Literature is a weapon against forgetting.