I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.

The city is the greatest invention of mankind.

Mathematics is not a deductive science—that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

The magic of cinema is in its ability to transport us to another world.

建筑师必须是城市肌体的治愈者。

君子的学习，听在耳里，记在心里，体现在仪表举止上，表现在一举一动中。

我喜欢创造一个不存在的世界，这就是电影的魅力。

Light is the soul of architecture.