We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

  • -- Frederick Douglass 弗雷德里克·道格拉斯

我们必须与过去打交道,只有这样我们才能使它对现在和未来有用。

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I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

我非常在意做一些对人们有用的东西,让他们拥有和倾听,但我不太在意,所以我不会做任何我想做的事。这只是其中之一。

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

对我来说,小说是我发现自己脑袋里在想什么的方式。所以当你和我做同样多的其他事情时,这是一件非常有用和关键的事情。

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

我不需要写未来。对大多数人来说,现在和未来一样可怕。

The future is purchased by the present.

现在决定未来。