The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
历史上的重大战争——我们被告知，而且被告知的是真实的——是国家不平等增长的直接或间接结果。
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.