建筑是一门自主的学科，独立于经济和技术之外。

Innovation is not achieved overnight, but through continuous accumulation and breakthroughs.

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well.

古代以天下为主体，君主为客体，君主一生所经营的，都是为了天下。

Memory， I realize， can be an unreliable thing； often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.