作家必须相信他所做的是世界上最重要的事情。即使他知道这不是真的，他也必须坚持这种幻觉。

一本书是作者和读者之间的对话，一种超越时间和空间的对话。

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all doing direct the other way.

Architecture is about creating order out of chaos.