The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

害怕被征服的人，注定要失败。

A building should feel inevitable, as if it couldn't be any other way.

一本书对孩子来说应该像一个朋友——令人安心、兴奋且充满惊喜。

历史是一场我试图从中醒来的噩梦。