"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."

我相信梦想和努力的力量。

永远不要低估观察的力量——有时最小的细节会带来最大的发现。

我追求的是建筑的纯粹性，去除一切不必要的装饰。

"Sometimes the hardest journey is the one you take alone."

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions， a few of which I had thought about， some of which I had sort of stumbled on， and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.