History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
我不会让任何人对我的看法定义我是谁。
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.