In one Psalm--it's great--he's one of the gods and he says, "You know, you guys don't know what you're doing. Let me take over."

其中一篇写得很好，上帝是众神的一员，他说道，“知道吗，你们根本不明白自己在做什么，还是让我来吧“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They can't imagine -they don't have the power of imagination to think what the next crisis will be like, so it catches them by surprise.

他们无法想象,他们根本想象不出,下次危机爆发是什么样,所以危机发生时他们措手不及

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

To write about your life and to pretend that you're communicating the memory of what happened to you--your grief, your private grief-- doesn't contain that universalizing move that fiction, by its very essence, contains.

把你的生活呈现出来,假装成在描述发生在你身上的事，你的不幸，你个人的不幸-,不包括小说根本性的一般化处理，你看，你可以回忆我们在《尤利西斯》的广告。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选