"History is not just facts and dates; it’s the lives of people who lived them."

Architecture is surely not the design of space, certainly not the massing or organizing of volumes. These are the means, not the end. The end is the complete and total work of art.

作家的任务不是评判，而是理解。

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

使生命成为可能的唯一事情是永久且无法忍受的不确定性；不知道接下来会发生什么。

The history of the world is the history of the struggle for recognition.