It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

"In the end, we are all stories. What matters is how we tell them."

计划写作不是写作。列提纲、做研究、和别人谈论你在做什么，这些都不是写作。写作就是写作。

The architect’s duty is to make the world more habitable.