大都市要求人作为一种有辨别力的生物，比乡村生活需要更多的意识。
The metropolis exacts from man as a discriminating creature a different amount of consciousness than does rural life.
A building must be true to itself.
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.