https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/23/gabriel-garcia-marquez-nobel-prize-acceptance-speech/

An ennobled vision for a world “where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible.”

Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.

 

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. – Einstein