文学是一种自由的行为，一种逃离束缚我们的锁链的方式。

A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance- checks and double-checks and so forth-you could create a better world.We just try to operate in a seamless web of deserved trust and be careful of whom we trust.

Optimism is a learned skill.

You have to dream hard.

不以法推行法度，则国事没有常规，办事的时候就没有规矩可循；法度不用法的手段推行，则政令不能贯彻。

A building must be a celebration of its context, its culture, its people.