现代国家的创建是一个复杂而困难的过程，需要发展强大的制度。

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

我专注于成功需要做的事。

Escribir es un acto de libertad, una manera de escapar de las cadenas que nos imponen.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

小说的艺术在于创造一个比现实本身更真实的世界。