"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

The Guggenheim Bilbao changed my life. It proved that architecture could transform a city.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

灵感来自四面八方，但尤其来自我周围的人。

谈《罗生门》

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.