We must constantly question the narratives we inherit and seek out the stories that have been left untold.

"La literatura es una forma de resistencia, una manera de decir 'aquí estoy' en un mundo que quiere silenciarnos."

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."