"To read is to travel without moving, to live a thousand lives in one."

Every day confirms his belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

最终，我们都只是故事，被讲述和重述，直到它们成为别人的真相。

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the times.

成功不在于目的地，而在于旅程。

The most difficult thing in architecture is to be simple.