历史学家的任务是理解过去,而小说家的任务是让它活过来。
The historian’s task is to understand the past, the novelist’s to make it live.
监管框架应激励进步,而不仅仅是惩罚过去。
In things indifferent, nothing is preferable to anything else.
Memory is what we thought we’d forgotten; it’s also what we thought we’d remember.