And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities…on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
所以富贵的人极其奢侈,二孤儿寡妇却受饥挨饿,虽然想天下不乱,也不可能。国君若真的希望天下太平而不希望天下大乱的话,如果要吃喝,就不能不节俭。
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
独裁和真正的文学不能共存。一个必须死亡，另一个才能生存。
They are not monuments, but footprints. A monument only says, 'At least I got this far,' while a footprint says, 'This is where I was when I moved again.'
写作是抵抗历史的抹去。