The dirty little secret is that you don’t have to be a nice person to be a great artist.

When I retire, I want to look back the way I walked past, every day, I have paid my all.

最好的建筑来自约束，而不是自由。

The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.

战略规划不是预测未来，而是为未来做好准备。

最平凡的生活也能包含非凡的故事。

Other holidays repose upon the past; Arbor Day proposes for the future.

I don’t run out of material. I run out of time.

A composer's biography is written in his scores, not in his letters or diaries.