I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of my books with a wedge...Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.