我不是没素材了，而是没时间了。
I don’t run out of material. I run out of time.
The value of literature lies in its ability to let us experience others' lives and thus better understand ourselves.
The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.
建筑是一种记忆，是对历史的记忆。
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
We don't inherit the oceans from our ancestors; we borrow them from our children.