The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

美国是唯一一个直接从野蛮进入颓废、中间没有经过文明阶段的社会。

The best architecture is that which disappears, leaving only the experience.

未来不是现在提供的替代路径中选择的结果，而是一个被创造的地方——首先在思想和意志中创造，然后在活动中创造。