The biographer's task is to resurrect the past, not to judge it.

你说得越多，就越有可能说些愚蠢的话。

小说是揭示更深层次真相的谎言。

我们把男人当成神，他们却离我们而去；有些把男人当成畜生，他们反倒摇尾乞悯，而且忠心耿耿。

You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.

作曲家的传记写在他的乐谱中，而不是在他的信件或日记里。