故事是作者写给自己的一封信，用来告诉自己那些他无法以其他方式发现的事情。
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
"I'm not a material girl, but I do like material things."
建筑是一项非常危险的工作。如果一个作家写了一本糟糕的书，那只是一本糟糕的书。但如果一个建筑师建了一栋糟糕的建筑，那就是糟糕的生活。
It's not always rainbows and butterflies, it's compromise that moves us along.
【解释】幸福不可强求，保持愉快的心情，更能感受到幸福；灾祸难以避免，消除怨恨他人的念头，就能远离灾祸。
I'm not a hero, I'm not a villain, I'm just a man.
"You have to be paranoid to survive."