"The dead are invisible, they are not absent."
"When you are writing, you are trying to find out something which you don't know."
"A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers."
"The past is not dead ground, and to traverse it is not a sterile exercise."
过去并非死寂之地，穿越它绝非徒劳之举。
"History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
The past is a shadow that follows us into the future.
过去是跟随我们进入未来的影子。
The dead are not lost. They are just out of sight.
死者并未消失。他们只是看不见了。
The past is a story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
过去是我们对自己讲述的关于自己的故事。
The dead are not absent. They are just invisible.
死者并未缺席。他们只是不可见。
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The dead are not dead to us until we have forgotten them.
只有当我们忘记死者时，他们才对我们死去。
The past is a mirror that reflects the present.
过去是一面映照当下的镜子。
The dead are not gone. They are simply not here.