The novel is the great art form of the individual voice.

出自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·通有第三》这句话给了那些投机者很大的信心，他们会说：你看，老祖宗都说想要富你得靠脑子，凭力气是赚不到大钱的，想要得利你还得住在一个靠近市集的地方，当然，我也很是承认他说的对，脑子好使，又有一个地段很好的底商，怎么会不赚钱呢？其实你要仔细想一下，这就是一句废话，你有个好地段的底商，就是租出去，自己什么也不干，也有钱拿的！这个条件，我们大部分人都是没有的！意思是创造财富在于方法，不一定要靠体力获得。获取利百润的关键在于审时度势发现商机，不一定要亲自耕种获得。

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

Context is everything - architecture must speak to its surroundings.

倾听是一种参与行为。

I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarrass easily.

晏子春秋

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

"Every film has its own visual language, and it's our job to find it."