成为作家就是成为他人生活的窃贼。

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.

The past is always present in the work I do.

It's a terrible thing to be alone—yes it is—but it's also terrible to be with people and still feel alone.