Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

The act of writing is an act of resistance against forgetting.

人不是为失败而生的。一个人可以被毁灭，但不能被打败。