建筑是一种挑战，是对自我的挑战。

The artist's duty is to be a witness to his time.

Pain is the absence of pleasure, pleasure is the absence of pain.

In the end, survival is not about how much you have, but how well you can use what you have.

The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.