The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

我写小说，人们告诉我这是自传；我写自传，人们告诉我这是小说。既然我这么笨，他们这么聪明，那就让他们决定这是什么或不是什么吧。

We're not interested in taking a substantial chance of taking a lot of very decent people back to 'Go' so we can have one more zero on our net worth.

计划写作不是写作。列提纲、做研究、和别人谈论你在做什么，这些都不是写作。写作就是写作。