A good novel tells us the truth about its protagonist; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
拥有而不需要，总比需要而没有好。
城市是最复杂的艺术品。
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.