The biographer's task is to resurrect the past, not to judge it.
She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
每个故事都有一个开始、中间和结尾，但不一定按照这个顺序。
社会结构的连续性取决于文化从一代到下一代的传递。
