The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Architecture must resist the purely functional; it must transcend mere utility.

民主是唯一能够反映人类精神不屈不挠追求自由的制度。

The world is a mirror, and it reflects our ugliness.

我想卖出一百万张唱片，我卖出了一百万张。我想获得白金唱片；我获得了白金唱片。我从15岁开始就一直在不停地工作。我甚至不知道如何放松。