Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

A good building is one that makes you feel something.

说出真相的唯一方式是无畏后果地表达。

读，读，读。读所有东西——垃圾、经典、好的和坏的，看看他们是怎么做的。就像一个当学徒的木匠研究大师一样。读！你会吸收它。然后写。如果它是好的，你会发现。如果不好，就把它扔出窗外。

我不是传统意义上的讲故事的人。我是一个试图为真理找到形式的作家。

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the breath of universal history.