The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
没有人真正了解其他人。他所能做的最好的事情就是假设他们像他自己一样。
The historian must be a poet and an artist in order to give life to the dead bones of the past.
We are all haunted by the shadows of our former selves.