"The weight of history is always present in the materials we use."

我们是我们反复做的事情。因此，卓越不是一种行为，而是一种习惯。

我坚持自己的信仰，很多时候这可能与常规或人们对我的期望相违背。

I write to understand what I think.

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.

小说中的人物比他的创造者拥有更多自由——这就是支撑我写作的讽刺。