过去并未死去，它甚至还未过去。
The past is not dead, it is not even past.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
"Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else."