“The more I study, the more I learn and absorb, the more I realize how truly little I know.”

Treo Notes (December 2006 - December 2009)

Source: Dear Enemy

Source: The Story of My Life

"It's All Too Much" (1967)
Lyrics

Source: The Lost Symbol

As quoted in &quot;James Clavell, Best-Selling Storyteller of Far Eastern Epics, Is Dead at 69&quot; by William Grimes in The New York Times (8 September 1994) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E4D61138F93BA3575AC0A962958260&amp;sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=all <br class="br">Context: Changi became my university instead of my prison. … Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life — the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.

O interview (2003)
Context: I came here and realized how truly limited my English was, and it was very scary. I soon realized it wasn't going to be hard to learn — it was going to be nearly impossible. My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, "You speak English with a good accent." You either speak English or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares. But the word accent became such a big word in my life. And they thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, "I'm going to Hollywood." Nobody thought I could make it.

Source: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 19 (p. 372)