Every word is a step towards understanding.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

All changes follow a law.

I’m not a guy that’s going to let my love for the NBA down.

文学是一面镜子，不仅反映社会，还映照人心的深处。

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.

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.