愚昧是最大的罪行，没有之一。

"To write is to give oneself a chance to live many lives."

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.

La literatura es un espejo que nos devuelve nuestra imagen, pero también una ventana que nos permite ver más allá.

"In the silence of a scene, the truth of the character speaks the loudest."

History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.

小说是个人的艺术形式。