A building should respond to its environment, not dominate it.

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.

现实与幻觉之间的界限常常模糊不清。

艺术的任务是使不可见的东西变得可见。

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.