释义：小的善行虽然不能带来巨大的好处，但是不能不做；小的恶行虽然不能惹来灾祸，但是不能不改。

真正的作家不是为了名声而写作，而是为了表达内心的真实。

作家是这样的人，对他来说，写作比其他人更困难。

创新常常来自于重新思考平凡的事物。

语言是存在的家园。

We are interested in the space between people and objects, and how they interact.

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

每个人都是自己最大的敌人，仿佛是自己的凶手。

最难坦白的不是犯罪的事情，而是荒谬和可耻的事情。

建筑应该是一种集体行为，建筑师与社会之间的对话。