每个生命都包含自己的奥秘,传记作者必须尊重那些不可知的部分。
Every life contains its own mysteries, and the biographer must respect the unknowable.
人不是生下来就懂得道理的,谁能没有疑惑?
作家必须是一个永远的异见者,一个职业的异端。
The past is not a shadow but a living presence.
The writer must have the courage to say what others dare not say.