To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone.

So I guess both Susan Boyle and this vegetable vendor in Shanghai belonged to otherness. They were the least expected to be successful in the business called entertainment, yet their courage and talent brought them through. And a show and a platform gave them the stage to realize their dreams.

最好的游戏是那些能把人们聚集在一起的游戏。

我不想成为一棵树，我想成为它的意义。

"La literatura debe incomodar, debe hacer preguntas, no dar respuestas."

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.