作为一个作家的巨大优势是你可以窥探别人。你在那里，听着每一个字，但你的一部分在观察。对作家来说，一切都是有用的，每一片碎片，甚至是最长最无聊的午餐会。
"The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties."
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
建筑师必须是一位科学家。
"The past is a shadow that follows us, but it is the light ahead that guides us."
学习不仅仅是记忆的问题；它是创造的问题。
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged， but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
有些人如果好好鼓励，做得出一番事业；但是，还是做那种不论险阻艰辛都要干下去的汉子吧。