艺术家的角色是让不可见的东西变得可见。
History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.
过去半个世纪最重要的政治发展是自由民主在世界范围内的传播。
The biographer's challenge is to be both a detective and a poet.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.