历史学家必须与其研究对象有某种亲缘关系。死者不会开口，除非你以恰当的方式呼唤他们。

一般而言，宗教上的错误是危险的，哲学上的错误只是荒谬的。

There's a tendency to think that our present politicians are much worse than we had in the past.But we tend to forget how awful our politicians were in the past.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

"There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us."

我想像鸟儿歌唱一样作画。

Sustainability and efficiency must go hand in hand in modern energy production.