子贡问怎样实现仁，孔子说：“工人要做好工，必先磨好工具。生活在那里，就要追随那里的品德高尚的领导，结交那里的仁义之士。”

I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.

The architect's role is to be a mediator between dreams and reality.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.