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.

I believe in the power of love and connection.

To be a writer is to have a certain kind of sensitivity to the world, to be able to see what others do not see, to hear what others do not hear.

每个人心中都有一张地图，这张地图是由他们的经历绘制的。

"Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor."