作家的角色是见证，讲述需要被讲述的故事，为无声者发声。

译文：治理国家的关键在于选拔任用贤能。司马光重视人才对政权的支撑作用。

在现代研究中，合作是关键——没有任何一个人能独自解决重大挑战。

Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.

"I don't think of myself as a photorealist. I think of myself as a realist painter."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.