沙漠教会人耐心、沉默，以及聆听时间低语的艺术。
The desert teaches patience, silence, and the art of listening to the whispers of time.
The historian’s task is to understand the past, the novelist’s to make it live.
The architect's role is to act as a bridge between what is and what could be.
The laws of behavior are as precise as those of physics.
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.