The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

尊崇贤人，不重女色；孝敬父母能够尽心尽力；侍奉君主能够舍生忘死；与朋友交往能够做到说话讲信用。这样的人，虽然说没有学习过做人的道理，但我却认为他学过了。

The writer must be a perpetual dissident, a professional heretic.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that moment when you're glad to die.

建筑是为生活创造框架。