Every stroke of the brush is a conversation with the universe.

建筑不是关于时尚，而是关于永恒。

The novel is the art of making the private public, the personal universal.

The value of a mental process is in its survival utility.

The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

The night is a great dream, but the stars are its reality.