The past is always there, and it's always different every time you look at it.
"We are all just walking each other home."
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
纯粹根据基金过去的表现购买基金是投资者可以做的最愚蠢的事情之一。
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.