"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

A novel is a mirror that reflects not only the world but also the reader's soul.

Architecture is a profession that takes on the public realm, and in that sense it has to deal with the political.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

There is no love that’s so right as admiration-based love, and that love should include the instructive dead. Somehow, I got that idea and I lived with it all my life and it’s been very very useful to me.

如果您不愿意对它们负责，那就不要有好主意。

政府的职责是帮助那些无法自助的人。

The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

Technology has no shortcuts, only continuous accumulation and breakthroughs.

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.