I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.

"Escribir sobre Centroamérica es escribir sobre el corazón del mundo, aunque ese corazón sangre."

海洋的恩赐是一种特权，而不是应得的权利。

"In every story, there is a piece of the writer's soul, immortalized in ink."

文学不是现实的镜子，而是塑造现实的锤子。