"A verdadeira literatura não tem medo de enfrentar a realidade, por mais dura que seja."

The starting point to end poverty is admitting: We’re all in the same boat.

"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter. It creates a picture, but it's not always the same picture."