小额信贷的真正力量，是让穷人相信自己的潜力。

Science fiction is the literature of ideas, and the ideas are what matter.

"The most important thing in science is not to be right, but to be curious."

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

The first erroneous assumption is that quality means goodness, or luxury, or shininess, or weight. Quality means conformance to requirements.

"I write about people who are desperate, who are on the edge, who have no other options."

The older I get, the more I realize that the only thing that really matters is love and relationships.