People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. I think if you work hard enough, you can please everybody.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

历史学家的任务是理解过去，而小说家的任务是让它活过来。