To be free is not to have no master, but to choose your own.
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.
The thing you’re most afraid to write, that’s what you should write.
文明是一条有岸的河流。河流有时充满了人们杀戮、偷窃、喊叫和做历史学家通常记录的事情的血,而在岸上,不被注意,人们建造家园,做爱,抚养孩子,唱歌,写诗,甚至雕刻雕像。文明的故事是发生在岸上的故事。