The great thing about fiction is that it makes everything interesting.

写作的乐趣在于发现未知。

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

社会学的想象力使拥有者能够根据其对各种个人的内心生活和外部职业生涯的意义来理解更大的历史场景。

Good research is like a good story—it has a beginning, a middle, and an end, and it holds together logically.