历史不是过去。它是我们进化出来的组织我们对过去的无知的方法。

The border between dream and reality is thinner than we think.

"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter. It creates a picture, but it's not always the same picture."

The historian’s task is to understand the past, the novelist’s to make it live.

我是趋势的定义，我是你被解雇的原因，我是你被雇用的原因。