城市是一个共同的梦想。

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

The free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There's a difference.

Every building is a kind of confession.

The only way to deal with chaos is to embrace it.