The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

"The truth is a game, and the game is a lie."

"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth."

Language is not a cultural artifact that we learn the way we learn to tell time or how the federal government works. Instead, it is a distinct piece of the biological makeup of our brains.

我相信艺术可以成为社会变革的有力工具。