我们这个世纪的贫困与以往不同。它不像以前的贫困那样是自然稀缺的结果,而是富人强加给世界其他地区的一系列优先事项的结果。
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.
Literature is a false representation of life that nevertheless helps us to understand life better, to orient ourselves in the labyrinth where we are born, pass, and die.
I believe in the power of art to inspire, to heal, and to bring people together.