"The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then throw rocks at him."
作家的任务就是把主角逼上绝路，然后向他扔石头。
We are all obsessed with conspiracies, but we are also obsessed with the idea that there is a conspiracy behind everything.
"History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier."
Every life contains its own mysteries, and the biographer must respect the unknowable.
有一个神，是众神和人类中最伟大的，无论在身体还是思想上都与凡人毫无相似之处。
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
