没有一个社会能够真正繁荣和幸福，其中大多数成员都贫困和痛苦。
No society can surely be flourishing and happy， of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
To write is to confront the ghosts of our past, to give them a voice, and perhaps, to set them free.
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.