"The only thing that is truly immortal is the human legacy."

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

"Every play is a funeral for something lost."

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out there is.

建筑应该是光的过滤器，而不仅仅是空间的容器。

That is what we have to do in life: to take the great wounds and the little scratches and keep on going.