"The act of writing is an act of resistance against the chaos of the world."

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

强调历史研究既要理解历史背景，又要保持学术批判性。

知道我们所知道的，知道我们所不知道的，这才是真正的知识。