The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

不管你是爱我还是恨我，我依然会在这里。

每座建筑都是一个原型。没有两座是相同的。

The only way to understand painting is to look at it.

设计中的简洁是终极的复杂。

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture.