Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

Architecture is about finding the right balance between the specific and the universal.

礼、义、廉、耻是维系国家的四项基本准则；如果这四项准则不能推行，国家就会灭亡。

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

作家应该是他时代的见证者，现实的记录者。

我不是榜样...仅仅因为我能扣篮并不意味着我应该抚养你的孩子。

物理学的美丽不仅在于它提供的答案，还在于它揭示的奥秘。

The more you know, the less you understand.

I'm not a king, I'm just a man who wears a crown.