"To write is to confront the ghosts that the past has left behind."

The only true thoughts are those which do not understand themselves.

我是继猫王之后最糟糕的人，如此自私地利用黑人音乐来让自己致富。

The past is part of our present, and thus part of our future.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site.

And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;

民主是最坏的政府形式——除了其他所有不断地被试验过的政府形式之外。