传记作者的挑战在于既要成为侦探,又要成为诗人。
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
我们生活中最重要的大部分事情都在我们不在的时候发生。
Friends congratulate me after a quarterly-earnings announcement and say, 'Good job, great quarter.' And I'll say, 'Thank you, but that quarter was baked three years ago.'
The historian is a prophet in reverse.