"真正的文学不仅仅是讲述故事，而是通过故事揭示人性的复杂性。"

I'm a walking contradiction.

We've had vicious kings, and we've had idiot kings, but I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a king!

建筑不仅仅是关于美学，而是关于人们如何使用和体验空间。

古代的毛嫱、西施，虽然她们是天下的美人，但在满面怒容的时候，人家是看不出她们的美貌来的。鲁迅曾说“世间最可厌恶的事莫如一张生气的脸；世间最下流的事莫如把生气的脸摆给旁人看，这比打骂更难受”，开心的时候，几乎每个人都是慈眉善目，但最能显露一个人修养的，却是他生气的时候，即使盛怒，也不摆脸色给别人看，这是最佳的人品。

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.