"Writing is a way to make sense of our experiences."

The architect's task is to make space habitable, to make it alive.

"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

我无法了解懒惰的人，因为我们说的是不同的语言。我不了解懒惰的人，我也不想去了解。

我现在生活的全部信念在于，孤独远非一种罕见而奇特的现象，它不仅仅是我和少数其他孤独者的特质，而是人类存在的核心和不可避免的事实。

It takes a strong man to save himself, and a great man to save another.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

I’m not a guy that’s going to let my work ethic down.