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.

小说的真实不在于它是否发生过，而在于它是否可能发生。

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

I’ve had to learn to fight all my life—got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile, things will work out.

在这个不断试图改变你的世界里做自己，是最大的成就。

I try to approach each project as if it's my first.