The writer must be a stranger in his own country.

建筑是一门自主的学科，独立于经济和技术之外。

"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."

"It's not generally realized that all writers, even the greatest, are also readers first and last."