Architecture is an autonomous discipline, independent of economics and technology.

作家的职责是讲述真相，即使它令人不适或不便。

I do not know what I may appear to the world， but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore， and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary， whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The artist must be a philosopher and a poet.

Life is a play, and we must play our parts well.